Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2234 mails)

[syncro@xxxxxxxxx (Darren R. Weber)]

On Wed, 01 Sep 1999, you wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Sep 1999 17:41:33 -0700 (PDT), "Seán" "Ó" Ceallaigh wrote:
> 
> > I use a Matrox Millenium G200 with 8MB SDRAM.  It's an OEM version that
> doesn't come with all the fancy packaging, but I got it for about $75.00.
> It's probably even less now.  It seems to work great with the X server
> provided by Xfree86.
> 
>   Beyond brand favorites and other matters of personal preference, I think
> that something we're all interested in is the ease-of-setup and general
> configurability of our fancy new hardware.  That's one of the things that
> prompted me to mothball my Voodoo Banshee.  Now that SuSE has included
> V3/Banshee in SaX's list of supported video cards, that argument has been
> abolished.
> 
>   Heck, when I bought my first Permedia2v 8mb PCI card ($60, no-name
> manufacturer), SaX wouldn't so much as start the GLINT server for me, so I
> had to use xf86config to make my card run.  By the time I mothballed my
> Banshee, however, and replaced it with my STB GlyderMax 8mb AGP ($35, oem
> surplus), SaX handled the GLINT server beautifully.
> 
>   How was your experience, Sean?  What did you use to set up your Matrox
> with?  Is it fairly easy to configure other modes?  I'm curious, because the
> G200's got a bad rap initially, and I've been wondering where progress on
> that server is...
> 
> -=|JP|=-  (Resident GNUbie)
> 
> Jon Pennington             

I saw Jon's note here and after just sending a snip about my G100 I figured I
would expand a little myself. 

I couldn't see the proper driver for the Matrox cards in Sax when I set up 6.1.
 If they were there I didn't know how to get them to show up.  I did have to
use xf86config to get my card to run, but it was very painless. . .just follow
the questions.  I don't know if the Matrox driver has been added to Sax yet but
it should be.  There are a lot of us Matrox users out here.  I used Sax to set
up my laptop and it worked well so I hope it keeps getting better.  In any case
I think the Matrox cards (mine at least) work well, and I don't know why people
keep bashing them.

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