Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Hardware supported by the kernel | From | Henning Schmiedehausen <> | Date | 09 Sep 2003 09:42:37 +0200 |
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If you use one monitor and VGA, yes. But then again, this is the 21st century.
I'm using my G550 exclusively for Linux and 2D. And still I need a proprietary binary module (but noone from LKLM cries wolf because it's a user space module) to access the DVI-D ports and the second port.
Regards Henning
On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 20:10, John Stoffel wrote: > Henning> Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> writes: > >> Matrox - Not exactly a speed demon any more in the 3d market. Open > >> drivers though. Not sure about Parhelia. > > Henning> LOL. Buying a G550 was the biggest mistake I ever did. DVI-D > Henning> support only with a binary only module and still a heavy bug > Henning> in it (basically it takes a 90 second break when starting X). > > I've got a couple of G200s and a G450 as my main display. I'm more > interested in wonderfully sharp 2-D display, not so much in 3-D. > Everything I've read says that the Matrox still makese the best 2d > boards... > > John -- Dipl.-Inf. (Univ.) Henning P. Schmiedehausen INTERMETA GmbH hps@intermeta.de +49 9131 50 654 0 http://www.intermeta.de/
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