Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1695 mails)

[Adam Jimerson <vendion@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 09 July 2009 06:34:40 am Volker wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Can anybody give me his experience with recent Matrox grafics boards and
> linux?
>
> In particular:
> - availability of drivers
> - multihead support with 4 displays
> - openGl performance compared to nvidia/ati cards
>
>
> Regards
> .....Volker

I have an old Matrox Millennium II card that is using the mga driver, included 
in the system no configuration needed, and it works quite well.  The mga 
driver only works for a small number of their cards, for a list of supported 
cards see man mga.  Other than that on their website 
(http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/support/drivers/) they seem to have Linux 
drivers for some of their cards I can't tell you how well they work because my 
card is to old to be supported by it, nor can I say how it works with multiple 
displays, my card only supports one display.  All I can tell you is to give it 
a try and maybe report back it it works or not
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