[plug] Matrox G200 Video Cards

Peter Robinson ribbo at iinet.net.au
Thu Dec 10 08:30:44 WST 1998


On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, s.humble wrote:

> Peter Robinson wrote:
> > To be exact -> none, but there are two ways to make it work.
> >
> > 1. Download the new XFree86 3.3.3 which has Matrox G200 Support.
> > 2. Download the Matrox XServer from SUSE which also has it.
> >
> > If you choose 1 you will have to get either the source from XFree86 and
> > compile it or download the RPMs from the redhat RawHide ftp site ->
> > rawhide.redhat.com/i386/RedHat/RPMS
> >
> > If you choose 2 there is an RPM available from the SUSE ftp site.
> >
> > Regards
> > Peter
> 
>  Well i was using my standard Mateox Mystique 2mb with version Xfree86 3.3.1 if i
> remember correectly. At upto 1600*1200 and
> bit depths of upto 24 bits, and real high refresh rates upto 100hz.

Yes, there has been support for the Matrox Millenium and Mystique in
XFree86 for ages but not for the G200 and G100 as they are relitively new.

Peter

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