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

> > I have an nvidia with 64MB, and the other cards I had until now are 1-4MB.
> > (Is the Nvidia also vesa frame buffer?)

> Yes. I'd be surprised if there was any card with that much memory that
> didn't do vesafb.
>
> > > There's a relatively new nVidia driver out there, it's known to
> > > work on Riva 128, TNT and GeForce2 chipsets, also others have
> > > been reported working.
> >
> > I have Nvidia GeForce MX420 which is probably too old.  And the
> > other two cards we were given both have fans on their heat sinks
> > and are:
> >
> > inno3D MX(400) 64MG AGP  MX-128 Rev 2.1
> > ASUS AGP-V7700/32MB G-Force Pure DDR 32MB  - is this an older Nvidia too?

This one may be a Ti (Titanium)

> MX is a stripped-down Geforce something. Somewhat like a Celeron
> and the various Pentium incarnations.

These two cards are based on Nvidia GeForce2.  The 32MB one used to cost 
$173 and also came in a deluxe version with 3D glasses.   It is not MX.

The Nvidia MX420 (in there now, PCI) and the inno3D MX400 have 64MB and TV 
output but are MX.

A review said the MX420 Geforce2 was much faster than the 400, but is AGP 
(the 400) faster than PCI (the 420)?

Another site said the MX400 did 2.7GB/sec and the Ti 6.4GB/sec (under 
Memory), both GeForce2.

Is MX with 64MB or Ti with 32MB likely to play DVDs better/faster?
I. e., is memory size or speed more important here?

The Ti also has per-pixel shading, whatever that is.

I may run some experiments on that video clip (or time how many sec it 
takes for a DVD to lose its sound).

All of these are supposed to support two displays.  (Not that there is a 
place to plug in two monitors, that I can see).