[AG-TECH] Adjustments to AGN Specs

[Don Morton]

1) Due to unexpected configuration of Display machine motherboard,
   I'm running 3 projectors plus monitor off of the G200 Quad
   card.  As it turns out, the G200 won't cooperate with any
   other video adaptor in the machine unless its a Matrox
   (and the restriction is probably more specific than just that).
   So, at this point everything runs off of the G200 Quad.  Naturally,
   it's working in the sense that I can display on all three 
   projectors plus monitor.  However, I have concerns that it won't
   handle the load of a real AGN session.  Does anybody have
   experience with this?  I don't know if I want to leave things
   the way they are, or if it would be prudent to get a new
   motherboard with AGP slot, or some other solution.  Money
   doesn't flow freely here, but an AGN that can't process all
   these graphics isn't desirable, of course :)

2) On the video capture machine, there are only two free PCI slots
   for the WinTV cards.  One slot is taken up by the NIC, yet
   there is also an onboard 10/100 port.  I understand that the
   Intel PCI Pro/100+ NIC that's in there does some processing
   of a level or two of the TCP/IP stack, so I'm wondering if
   pulling that out and using the onboard 10/100 would critically
   cut the network capabilities of that machine.  Again, does anybody
   have experience enough to provide advice?

We're still several weeks away from even getting our high-speed network
connected in to the AGN, so I can't test this myself.  Which reminds
me, U. Montana has an opening for a Networking position (I don't know
exactly at what level) - if anybody's interested, I can find more
info for you.  In general, low monetary rewards, high peace-of-mind
rewards :)

Don
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Don Morton                     http://www.cs.umt.edu/u/morton/  
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