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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, David Moberg wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
>
> > Supposedly a really fast video card with onboard RAM helps
> > compensate for a slower cpu.  We have one Nvidia to try in the
> > 600MHz computer.
>
> A video card with motion compensation. You need drivers and other
> things. If you have a 600MHz processor, you should not need this.

I read somewhere that we would need a faster video card for this speed 
cpu.  I think they recommended at least 900MHz for a regular video card. 
I presume by drivers you mean I would need to recompile the kernel (as for 
framebuffer) and who knows if SW7.1 even supports this.  We already have a 
standalone DVD player (found at the curb, working, with TV - amazing what 
people throw out around here, maybe because the TV was only 13"?)
Maybe next year I will attempt linux with DVD, after someone gives us 
their old obsolete 1GHz board.


> > > Are there issues with the Slackware xpdf?
> >
> > It is out of date and will not work on pdf 1.5 files, which came
> > out some time this past year or so.  People keep sending me scanned
> > documents that they convert to pdf 1.5 before emailing.  The IRS
> > puts out its documents are some format of pdf designed to be filled
> > in, which even gs 8.50 which I compiled (for glibc 2.2.5) prints
> > out half a page down, so I had to use xpdf 3.0 on those too.  I
> > think it was pdftops, and then I could print with gs.
>
> I may need to research the various free pdf viewers.
Are there others besides xpdf and gs?

> > I should try pstopnm from netpbm next.
>
> pstopnm just uses ghostscript.

gs can directly convert to pbm format too.  -sDEVICE=pbm

> David
> --


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