[AG-TECH] Osprey 440 Cards, Matrox QID Video Card, Recommended Soundcard

Natalia Costas Lago natalia at cesga.es
Tue Jun 28 05:21:45 CDT 2005



I havent tested it deeply, but it seems to me with VIC 1.1.6 (and probably 
1.1.5) there are no trails on the screen.

You can get VIC from mice project (no OpenMash), and replace vic.exe located 
in local_services directory (Program Files/AccessGrid/local_services).

U'll loose some features of VIC 1.1.3 (as no buttons on the lower part of 
the video windows), and u'll get some other (like being able to lock the 
screen and the video streams are refreshed afterwards).


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter DeSantis" <peter at jumbovision.com.au>
To: "Nathan Gardiner" <nathan.gardiner at canterbury.ac.nz>; 
<ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov>
Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 7:58 AM
Subject: re: [AG-TECH] Osprey 440 Cards, Matrox QID Video Card, Recommended 
Soundcard


> Matrox QID PCI-e Video Card - 4x DVI / VGA output graphics card
> We used this in an AG, only problem we had was that we could not get it to 
> work in the indepednent screen mode.  The AG software would leave screen 
> corruption trails all over and eventually lock the system.
>
> In the stretch screen mode (where you have all screens same res, and 
> colour depth) it work fine, no problems that we could find, and good 
> performance in my opinion.
>
> Why it didnt work in the indepednat screen mode i dont know, my guess is 
> the driver was not mature enough, that may have changed by now, but i 
> could get no response from matrox (other than "we are not aware of any 
> problems with this product").  We didnt have another mainboard to test it 
> with, so the problems may have been compatability issues, but im leaning 
> to the driver issue myself.  In the end we left it in the AG, and will 
> prob use it in others.
>
> Didnt know there was a 4 channel osprey, gonna check that one out myself
>
> Peter
>
>
>
> >>  Hi all,
> >>
> >>  Just wanting to know if anyone has experimented with or is currently 
> >> using
> >>  any of these two pieces of hardware under an Access Grid session.
> >>
> >>  Osprey 440 - 4 Port PCI video capture card (due to be commercially 
> >> release
> >>  shortly)
> >>  Matrox QID PCI-e Video Card - 4x DVI / VGA output graphics card
> >>
> >>  Also when testing AG 2.3 with standard onboard motherboard soundcards 
> >> on
> >>  pc's, when we increased the audio quality on RAT using the Linear 
> >> Codec
> >>  up to 44khz that it would generally crash after around 5 minutes. I 
> >> would
> >>  say the obvious problem would be the onboard soundcards. Is there a
> >>  recommended soundcard that can successfully maintain high audio 
> >> streaming
> >>  in AG 2.3? I was thinking of something like Soundblaster Live or 
> >> Audigy.
> >>
> >>  Thanks so much for any input or suggestions.
> >>
> >>  Kind regards,
>
> 
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