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[Ted.Harding@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ((Ted Harding))]

On 06-Jun-99 Richard wrote:
>  
> I'm building a new Linux box which will not be up to date but will 
> be an improvement over my present 166Mhx mini-tower.
> 
>       I'm wondering which graphics card I should use with the X-server 
> which comes with SuSE 6.0 or 6.1.   The Matrox Mystique AGP G200 OEM 
> looks as though it should do the job.  Anyone know if this is OK with 
> the X-server ?  I can also get hold of ATI cards and Diamond Viper 
> cards.

I've been using a PCI (not AGP) G200 with no problems on a SuSE-5.1,
but with an updated XF86_SVGA dating from Jan 1999 (pulled as a binary
from generic XFree86).

The original driver did not work properly, nor did the then version
of XSuSE_Matrox.

I should think, therefore, that the stock XF86_SVGA on SuSE-6.1 should
work provided there are no problems with AGP support.

The reason I use the G200 is that it is one of the very few cards that
support overlays properly (i.e. you can have different colour depths
in different windows -- I need to be able to have 24bpp and 8bpp on
the same screen for multi-display across several machines).

However, for this I have to use the commercial AcceleratedX server
from XiGraphics, since none of the XF86 drivers seems to support overlays
(at any rate, not from that vintage).

As a matter of interest, therefore: Would any of the recent XF86 drivers,
as now available on SuSE, support overlays? And on which cards?

Cheers,
Ted.

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Date: 06-Jun-99                                       Time: 12:57:53
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