On Mon, 3 Sep 2001 13:39:43 -0500 "Gregory T. Norris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I need to replace the video card on one of my boxes, and I'm thinking > of getting a Matrox G450. I'd appreciate any comments on how well this > card is working for people. I don't have any real need for dual-head > support, so I don't plan on using the binary-only mga.o driver from > Matrox... I'd greatly prefer to stick with the XFree86 driver, if > possible. > > Suggestions for alternate graphic cards are also welcome, of course. > Thanx! mga.o is open source, mga_hal.o is not though, and you will need that to use it with XFree86 (for DRI anyway, I'm pretty sure you can get 2d only still). Matrox drivers in linux are very mature, and mplayer's mga_vid device gives you video quality that's (IMHO) better than what I've seen from Windows Media Player. Were I you though, I'd get something like a g400 or g400 max. These don't have the closed source driver needs that the g450 does, and so far as I know the g400 max is still the fastest of the three.
