My Matrox bitch.. was [plug] Unsubscirbe

[Simon Scott]

	Id like to see the DVD acceleration working under Linux on the G400

	That would rock

	Ya, there seems to be a bit of cashing in on Linux, with companies
selling stuff based on Linux that aint quite right......

	How hard can it be? 

	Is 3D acceleration under xinerama technically impossible or are they
just slack? Will I get 3D support under windows?





	From:	Brad Campbell <brad at seme.com.au> on 04-07-2001 02:40 PM
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	Simon Scott wrote:
	> 
	>         Re G450 tv out - spewing.... perhaps write them a
well-worded email?
	> It cant be that hard for them......

	There are a lot of unhappy people with Matrox at the moment,
regarding thier driver
	support. Not only does the TVout not work on the G450, but the whole
G4Xx series
	it up the creek with the PAL DVDMax option not working properly..
	They have "been working on it" since Feb.. I'm not really impressed
with them at all.
	In fact, given they advertise the product as Supporting Linux, with
DVD acceleration
	and High resolution TVOut..
	They support the basic display functions under linux.. there is no
DVD acceleration in 
	the product and thier TVOut does not work at all under linux, and
only works under
	windows if you are displaying slow moving or static images.. Not
only that, but thier
	bundled DVD player crashes on startup and the best they can do is
recomend purchasing the
	upgraded player from Ravisent..
	Me Bitter ... ?

	 
	>         What do you mean by 'matrox driver driver source
substituted'? Is
	> there a source patch for Xfree86?
	> 
	>         Isnt that the point of X's new module system?

	Er.. maybe.. I just did a 
	mv matrox matrox.old
	cp /home/brad/matrox . -r

	from the driver module dir..

	There were a couple of things to edit in the config file from
memory.. 
	I picked it up from the Matrox tech support forums.. They actually
have
	a Linux forum, for what it's worth..
	 
	>         How do you differentiate between booting X into 3d or
xinerama
	> modes? I know youd have to have seperate xconfig4 files (or
whatever theyre
	> called :) but do you have to use startx? I like my little login
screen :)

	Umm yeah.. I forget how to do it, coz I don't play games.. but it's
an option 
	you give to the xserver (I'd do it with startx.. like startx --
-option) to change
	screen layouts..


	-- 
	Brad....
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