--- Frank Barknecht <fbar@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hallo, > Kjetil S. Matheussen hat gesagt: // Kjetil S. > Matheussen wrote: > > > Ron: > > >The G400 requires mga_hal which is a binary and > blah, > > >freakin blah. > > I don't think it requires any binary driver. I had a > G400 before the > G450, which I'm using for about two years now, and > even with that I've > never installed any binary-only module, just plain > xfree86 (now xorg). Were you running dual monitors with xinerama? You may be right about not needing the mga_hal. For the moment I power off the second monitor while starting X, power the monitor up and this causes the entire visible area to be filled with a spanning desktop. With the monitor left on during the start of X the screen is sized smaller than the monitor, is always a different size and what is there locates to different coordinates upon each invocation of X. ron > > Regarding matrox, heres my experiences with > graphics cards > > on linux for audio use, posted half year ago: > > http://lalists.stanford.edu/lau/2005/12/0476.html > > Theres a typo there though: "Matrox 400+500" is > supposed to > > be "Matrox 450+550". I'm afraid of those cards. > They > > made my machines behave strangely, hanging, lots > of cpu use. > > It might work for you though, but none of mine > have been > > very pleasant, neither in windows or linux. You > can find similar > > experiences on the net, you should search a bit. > > Well, YMMV. ;) If you search a bit, you will also > find opposite > experiences. For example, if you search the old > Sound on Sound forum > for "matrox" you will find threads like this: > http://tinyurl.com/ffatc > or this: http://tinyurl.com/qwatg (Windows users) > > I think, as you get them for about 10 Euro or less, > trying a Matrox > card is worth it. > > > Ciao > -- > Frank Barknecht _ > ______footils.org_ __goto10.org__ > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
