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--- Frank Barknecht  wrote:
> Hallo,

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> Kjetil S. Matheussen hat gesagt: // Kjetil S.

> Matheussen wrote:

>

> > Ron:

> > >The G400 requires mga_hal which is a binary and

> blah,

> > >freakin blah.

>

> I don't think it requires any binary driver. I had a

> G400 before the

> G450, which I'm using for about two years now, and

> even with that I've

> never installed any binary-only module, just plain

> xfree86 (now xorg).

Were you running dual monitors with xinerama? 
You may be right about not needing the mga_hal. For

the moment I power off the second monitor while

starting X, power the monitor up and this causes the

entire visible area to be filled with a spanning

desktop. With the monitor left on during the start of

X the screen is sized smaller than the monitor, is

always a different size and what is there locates to

different coordinates upon each invocation of X.
ron
> > Regarding matrox, heres my experiences with

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> graphics cards

> > on linux for audio use, posted half year ago:

> > http://lalists.stanford.edu/lau/2005/12/0476.html

> > Theres a typo there though: "Matrox 400+500" is

> supposed to

> > be "Matrox 450+550". I'm afraid of those cards.

> They

> > made my machines behave strangely, hanging, lots

> of cpu use.

> > It might work for you though, but none of mine

> have been

> > very pleasant, neither in windows or linux. You

> can find similar

> > experiences on the net, you should search a bit.

>

> Well, YMMV. ;) If you search a bit, you will also

> find opposite

> experiences. For example, if you search the old

> Sound on Sound forum

> for "matrox" you will find threads like this:

> http://tinyurl.com/ffatc

> or this: http://tinyurl.com/qwatg (Windows users)

>

> I think, as you get them for about 10 Euro or less,

> trying a Matrox

> card is worth it.

>

>

> Ciao

> --

>  Frank Barknecht                 _

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> 

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