Advent Vega Apx Driver Zip
Laurice Whack
This is something i am working on at present - as android does not support external usb webcams due to a lack of drivers. Android is very driver sparse - as the operating system is losely based on Linux and is a standalone operating system that runs over the top of a kernal. That kernal is the driver and hardware 'pack' that sits under the operating system and is usually specific to the phone/tablet itself and only contains the drivers needed to run the devices hardware. Bundling drivers for usb devices would take up alot of memory - which is not available on most mobile devices. On a desktop or laptop, you have much more memory and the operating system usually has alot of redundant drivers for a very wide range of peripherals from scanners, printers, drives, webcams etc.
What i am trying to do is to get the 'video for linux' driver pack bundled up into my tablets kernal so that it will recognise and run usb webcams. However, the problem does not end there, you need some way of capturing and recording this feed and at present there is no sharpcap apk file - only exe. So you would need to make some form of 'bridge' between the usb webcam feed and the hardware driver that controls the recording of the built in camera to the sd card/on board memory. Once you get that working, your device would recognise the usb webcam and be able to record it to the memory like you would your phone camera. But it woul be a straight record, no settings for exposure/gain etc, and i dont know how effective this would be.
What I think it's going to take based on all of my hunting about the web, as you've already alluded to, is a dedicated App (similar to SharpCap) that gives full contol over the camera and will record in an uncompressed format (no small feat there) and a dedicated android webcam driver that allows control of the aspects I mentioned ( no small feat either).
I did a couple of benchmarks back in the beginning of December and consistently got a Passmark score of around 18,100 on my Gigabyte 5700 XT. After installing the 20.12.1 drivers I now consistently get Passmark G3D benchmarks of around 18,850.
The Gigabyte 5700 XT is known for being a pretty good card, but Passmark lists the average for 5700 XT benchmarks at 16,763 and this latest benchmark without any modifications to Gigabyte's stock fan curve puts it slightly above the average for even a RTX 2080. According to AMD's release notes for 20.3.1 they noted a 5% uplift in performance for that driver update, which would hold for this update too. Just wasn't expecting these sort of benchmark scores for this card at all, so I was wondering if this is what people are talking about when they talk about AMD gpus aging like fine wine
With the advent of Flat Panel Displays and high performance Graphics Adapters, a new technology was required that would allow the two to communicate securely and ensure the highest possible signal quality. To address this concern, the Digital Display Working Group developed the Digital Video Interface (DVI) format to standardize a digital video connection.
When HP stops supporting a workstation then they generally stop updating the drivers. Your basic hardware may already be fully supported in W10Pro64 with more modern drivers without any need to go to the HP drivers archive for the Z800.
A SATA III SSD or a HDD running through a PCIe slot SATA III interface card in one of these SATA II workstations would have its own on-card interface chipset and its own drivers, so this II versus III would not be an issue in that situation.
4. With the advent of SSDs we don't use SAS, and we don't use RAID either. The speed and very long MTBF of SSDs (and the ease of performing image captures of my SSD installs via eSATA) led to these decisions as did our interest in keeping things simple.
same for the LSI drivers, install them to activate the ports. however you can disable the onboard SCSI boot rom to speed up booting if you do not need to boot from the LSI controller/ports. once booted windows will still find/use thes ports if the driver is loaded the LSI BIOS only needs to be enabled if you actually boot from the LSI Ports
The HP Z 8xx series (800/820/840) have 3 separate mass storage controllers
2 Blue SATA 3 ports (uses normal windows driver built into the OS)
4 GREY "SCU" SATA ports (uses scu driver found in intel enterprise RST driver package for the "Cxx" series chipset)
7 WHITE SAS/SATA ports from onboard LSI controller chip (may need driver in pre win 10 OS)
the Z800 is based on the X58 chipset NO NVME SUPPORT IN BIOS
the z820 is based on the x79 chipset PARTIAL NVME SUPPORT - NO BOOT - DATA ONLY (bios 3.58 and higher)
the z840 is based on the x99 chipset (do not have this model so chipset may be wrong) FULL NVME SUPPORT
all Z 6xx/8xx systems can boot from a SATA 3 SSD (blue port) and the Z 8xx with the LSI chip can boot from SAS or SATA SSD's (white port)
most people using a standard windows 7/8/10 disk will be able to install the OS on the 2 blue SATA ports, and the 7 white LSI
without loading the Intel enterprise RST driver via "F6" during the OS Install
Please note the Intel RST enterprise drivers are different than the normal RST drivers in that they only support the Intel "C" series chipsets which are found in the HP Z 8xx series workstations
most of the above also applies to the HP Z6xx line of workstations
if setting up a system for the first time and you are using a stock disk without integrating the latest enterprise RST and LSI Drivers please place the boot drive and CD/DVD on the BLUE ports
if you integrate the RST/LSI drivers place the CD/DVD on a plue port and the boot drive on the grey SCU or white LSI ports
if not booting from the LSI ports, turn off this controller to speed booting, windows will still see and drives connected to it once the OS boots
creating a RAID array on the LSI OR the SCU ports will require that the controller "Initialize" the drives (IE- make the selected drives into a raid array) this step will destroy any data existing on the drives.
it will not touch your boot "C:" unless you selected this drive during the select drives to be raided step WHICH WOULD BE BAD IN THIS CASE!!
In other words for raid 5 you would need 4 drives in the system
1. your boot drive for booting the OS (do not select this drive)
2. at least 3 drives for the raid 5 selected in the create/select drives to be raided
if you want to boot from a raid array, have the drivers for the SCU/LSI chips on USB key/CD for loading during setup via "F6" or slipstreamed into the disk and create a array first, then proceed with the OS setup