Re: Use motherboard video-out or GPU???s

From	Pankaj Jangid <pankaj@codeisgreat.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Use motherboard video-out or GPU???s
Date	2021-03-10 05:40 +0100
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Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> Each monitor will only use the GPU that it is connected to.
>
> FWIW, I find the terminology used in the graphics card PC industry very
> confusing.  In my view, there are 4 different kinds of components to
> a graphic system:
>
> ...
>
> Most PC's "discrete" graphics cards include all 4 components and they
> typically can't use the system's normal DRAM in the same way they use
> their own video RAM.  This means that you often can't use your discrete
> GPU to render a 3D scene into the frame buffer used by the DE of your
> integrated graphics card.
>

Thanks for detailed explanation, Stefan. Your advice will definitely
save my money. As I have not yet purchased a motherboard, but I have a
couple of GPUs lying around unused. I am building a new workstation,
taking clues from this list.

-- 
Regards,
Pankaj Jangid

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Use motherboard video-out or GPU’s Pankaj Jangid <pankaj@codeisgreat.org> - 2021-03-09 09:00 +0100
  Re: Use motherboard video-out or GPU’s deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2021-03-09 09:50 +0100
    Re: Use motherboard video-out or GPU’s IL Ka <kazakevichilya@gmail.com> - 2021-03-09 12:10 +0100
    Re: Use motherboard video-out or GPU’s Pankaj Jangid <pankaj@codeisgreat.org> - 2021-03-09 13:50 +0100
      Re: Use motherboard video-out or GPU???s Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-03-09 15:50 +0100
        Re: Use motherboard video-out or GPU???s Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2021-03-09 17:00 +0100
          Re: Use motherboard video-out or GPU???s Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-03-09 18:30 +0100
            Re: Use motherboard video-out or GPU???s Pankaj Jangid <pankaj@codeisgreat.org> - 2021-03-10 05:40 +0100
              Re: Use motherboard video-out or GPU???s deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2021-03-10 08:10 +0100
                Re: Use motherboard video-out or GPU???s Pankaj Jangid <pankaj@codeisgreat.org> - 2021-03-10 08:50 +0100
          Re: Use motherboard video-out or GPU???s Pankaj Jangid <pankaj@codeisgreat.org> - 2021-03-10 05:40 +0100
      Re: Use motherboard video-out or GPU’s deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2021-03-09 19:50 +0100
        Re: Use motherboard video-out or GPU’s Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2021-03-09 22:20 +0100
          Re: Use motherboard video-out or GPU’s deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2021-03-10 01:00 +0100
            Re: Use motherboard video-out or GPU’s IL Ka <kazakevichilya@gmail.com> - 2021-03-10 02:00 +0100
              Re: Use motherboard video-out or GPU’s Pankaj Jangid <pankaj@codeisgreat.org> - 2021-03-10 05:50 +0100
  Re: Use motherboard video-out or GPU’s IL Ka <kazakevichilya@gmail.com> - 2021-03-09 12:20 +0100
  Re: Use motherboard video-out or GPU’s Linux-Fan <Ma_Sys.ma@web.de> - 2021-03-09 13:50 +0100

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