Re: Matrox G400
Hello!
On Sun, Aug 29, 1999 at 05:54:04PM -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 29, 1999 at 08:02:16PM -0400, B. Szyszka wrote:
> | > G200 8MB AGP, works great. I show XFree86 version 3.3.3.1 having
> | > support for G400 16MB video. I'd guess it also works well.
> | Does the amount of MB part make a difference? I was thinking about
> | a G400 32MB.
>
> It wasn't listed in version 3.3.3.1, but perhaps it'll be in one of
> the newer versions. You might check http://www.xfree.org. A quick look
> indicates the G400 isn't fully supported yet in 3.3.4 which was just
> released. There's no mention of the MBs of the card. I'd hazard that you
> might want to hold off a little while, or get the 16MB card. However,
> Matrox apparently is very supportive of X so it's sure to be supported
> in the not too distant future.
If you are interested in the Matrox G400, maybe you'll like one of the
boards with the TNT2 chipset from Nvidia. One friend of mine just got a
Diamond Viper V770 Ultra (It costs the same as the Matrox G400), and It runs
fine in X using the Xserver downloaded from the Nvidia site. Nvidia gave the
drivers to the XFree team, and it will work fine with future XFree releases.
He even plays Quake II and Quake III-test using the glx (open-gl) acceleration
that the card provides.
Just my $0.02,
Alexis Maldonado
Engineering College
University of Costa Rica
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