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. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Date: 06-Jun-99 Time: 12:57:53 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>