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Alan Hourihane wrote:

>On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 04:15 -0400, Mark Duckworth wrote:
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>>I would like to ask you guys which PCI video card and PCI USB 2.0 card
>>would be easiest to develop for, as I plan to buy these cards as well as
>>an active PCI riser card (the EVB has just one PCI slot).  I'm curious
>>how much the etherNAT USB driver is a proper ohci/uhci/ehci layer such
>>that the code might be reusable for this.  I will get this all working
>>under Linux and then begin attempting MiNT support.  This will be my
>>first foray into driver development, but I develop more confidence in
>>myself daily and it's all looking easier and easier the more I look at
>>kernel source code.
>>    
>>
>
>I suspect opting for an ATI Radeon 9200/9250 PCI card will keep the
>costs down and produce good results. The open source drivers are well
>documented and supported.
>

All people receiving this card should probably use the same video card, 
for more efficiency, and it is possible that fVDI already can manage 
this ATI card. I think it's a good choice.

> 
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>Alan.
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Olivier