Re: Hardware supported by the kernel

[Henning Schmiedehausen <hps@intermeta.de>]

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
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