USB to VGA/DVI adapters?

[Dan Ritter]

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 09:40:45PM -0500, Scott Ehrlich wrote:
> I have an Intel Atom w/GMA 500 PC, so the video isn't that great.  I'm
> using Ubuntu 8.04 out of box, which seems to produce the best video
> for the GMA 500   Would a USB to VGA/DVI adapter help improve
> streaming video (from hulu, youtube, etc)?

No. For one thing, Flash is not currently hardware-accelerated
in Linux. (This is expected to change sometime this year.)

> One adapter I'm looking at is the Sabrent/Arkview USB-dh88.   One
> thing I've seen from video processing of my existing system is high
> cpu utilization.   Will I experience that, or worse, with one of these
> adapters?  Or, will performance be offloaded to the devices and video
> and processing power improve?

Nope. The driver for the SIS USB-VGA chip is completely
unaccelerated.

Do you have any expansion slots? 

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