Zitiere thewade pdman@aproximation.org:

Hello list,

hi.

so you finally made Gem work ? great

I have a few questions to ask: Im building and pricing my dream machine.(yay!)

Does linux/Gem hardware acceleration work best with an ATI or Nvida cards?

i have very good experiences with nvidia, however, the licensing issue still remains. i have no modern ATI-card (the one in my laptop does not count as it is crap), but i guess radeon won't be that worse. however, i think dual-screen hw-acceleration migt be only supported by nvidia's drivers. (has been discussed earlier on one of these lists)

Has anyone heard of using a pcmcia firewire expansion card (adds more firewire ports) to use multiple streams of video on one machine in Gem/PDP?

while there is support for firewire in Gem i have never tried to use multiple devices. i'm not sure whether this is yet possible (but hold, i could go and give it a try on my desktop with at least 2 cams)

Is there anyone out there that has used either an AMD 64bit laptop or desktop in conjunction with linux (and pd), that would have any comments about it, good or bad?

the problem is, that pd (and Gem) will not benefit directly from 64bit (yet). however, since the amd64 is also a full-featured 32bit processor you won't have any drawbacks.

and of course, yo are invited to optimize both pd and Gem for 64bit ;-)

Sorry for the OT post, but I figure that you all are the real source of

btw, there is a pd-ot list ...

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