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I'm curious as to what the developers are shooting for on video cards, I believe that nvidia has some decent drivers for linux and I think their are some decent Nvidia cards with good dvi,hdmi out .. ?
thoughts in video card specifics?
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pike
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if you're read all info from us, Team XBMC, you know we will focus on 1-3 FUTURE platforms. these have not been decided yet, so I don't want to make someone buy product A when it might very well not be well supported in future.
But with that out of the way, it seems like ATI (amongst Nvidia & Intel) *could be* the brand with the worst linux drivers. Draw your own conclusions
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yah, ATI's linux support is pretty bad. So i'd just ignore them for the time being.
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For Ubuntu Feisty, Nvidia is the way to go...
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So, you say in the wiki that Shader Model 3 will be a requirement, but i didn't have a problem playing videos and naviagating the GUI on a GeForce 4 MX 440. AFAIK the xbox GPU was a souped up GeForce 3.
Shader Model 3 was also part of DX9, which the xbox doesn't support.
I guess I don't understand that requirement
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You don't neccessarily need the latest most expensive card for xbmc.
I've tried it with integrated i865 and it's fast enough to run x264 720p smoothly with intel 805D without overclocking.
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djh_
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I have an Asus 7600GS pencilled in for my Linux box. Silent heatsink, PS3.0 support and 512mb RAM. Sound about right?
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I've got a 1.42Ghz G4 mac mini lying around with 512MB RAM and internal ATI RV280 graphics, roughly equivalent to a 9200. Any chance of getting xbmc compiled for PPC linux? Is the graphics card fast enough to run it?
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Pretty much what I expected. If you guys support it great, otherwise I'll pick up an appletv. I can't wait to get rid of my ancient xbox for linuxbmc!
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mrkrad
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which nvidia is best supported driver wise? I'd prefer to output full time 1920X1080@60hz (svga/dvi) to the westy panel.
i know my geforce 6200 agp (nas) plays a few frames per second with a sempron 3100+.
I guess we have to think about how well the 8000 series drivers are supported (now and future) since they seem to have some pretty good power even on the low end
