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--- Loki Davison  wrote:
> On 6/21/06, Stephen Hassard

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> wrote:

> > Dave Robillard wrote:

> > > FWIW I've spent a (very) great deal of time,

> money, and effort building

> > > an (AGP) machine without a card which requires

> proprietary drivers for

> > > decent GL (namely a Radeon 9250).

> >

> > This seems the best route to go ATM, but does

> anyone have any

> > suggestions for doing something similar with a

> recent PCI-Express system?

> >

> > I see that Xorg is starting to support the ATI

> X800 line of cards using

> > the radeon driver, but DRI support seems very

> early. Also, 2D speed on

> > my X800 XL seems quite slow compared to the binary

> drivers, which is a

> > big deterrent from staying with the OSS drivers.

> >

> > later,

> > Steve

> >

>

> My nvidia (6600le pci-e) works okay with the open

> source drivers (nv)

> but forget gl stuff unless you use the nvidia

> drivers.

Section "Device"

        Identifier  "Videocard0"

        Driver      "mga"

        VendorName  "Videocard vendor"

        BoardName   "Matrox Graphics, Inc. G400/G450"
This is the one Link Swanson just brought over to the

studio and it's spanning dual screens running

"2.6.16-1.2080.13.rdt.rhfc5.ccrma".
I've had a couple hard lockups while configuring,

we'll see how stable it is as I run it.
Ron
> Loki

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