Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263938AbTIIHmu (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Sep 2003 03:42:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263965AbTIIHmu (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Sep 2003 03:42:50 -0400 Received: from babsi.intermeta.de ([212.34.184.3]:13075 "EHLO mail.intermeta.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263938AbTIIHms (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Sep 2003 03:42:48 -0400 Subject: Re: Hardware supported by the kernel From: Henning Schmiedehausen To: John Stoffel Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <16220.50701.478007.233356@gargle.gargle.HOWL> References: <3F59DF81.8000407@bluewin.ch> <20030906134029.GE69@DervishD> <20030907223258.GE28927@redhat.com> <20030908092952.GA51@DervishD> <20030908095357.GD10358@redhat.com> <16220.50701.478007.233356@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: INTERMETA - Gesellschaft =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=20f=C3=BCr?= Mehrwertdienste mbH Message-Id: <1063093357.27256.14.camel@forge.intermeta.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.4 Date: 09 Sep 2003 09:42:37 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -5.2 () BAYES_00 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1639 Lines: 41 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 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/ Java, perl, Solaris, Linux, xSP Consulting, Web Services freelance consultant -- Jakarta Turbine Development -- hero for hire "Dominate!! Dominate!! Eat your young and aggregate! I have grotty silicon!" -- AOL CD when played backwards (User Friendly - 200-10-15) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/