Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 23:34:09 -0700 From: TS Waterman <waterman@cs.brandeis.edu> To: Jeff Lawton <jefl@ix.netcom.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Graphics card selection in X windows Message-ID: <199809170634.XAA06985@home> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 16 Sep 1998 09:00:34 PDT." <35FFE0A1.21889859@ix.netcom.com> References: <35FFE0A1.21889859@ix.netcom.com>
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The Matrox G100 (and 200) are not yet supported by XFree86. However, because of user demand, they might be sometime soon. I might guess 6 months or so, max. see http://matrox.alloy.net/ Earlier Matrox cards are supported very nicely. http://www.xfree86.org/FAQ/index.html will list all the hardware they support. I believe that Xi Graphics http://www.xig.com has a commercially- available X server which supports these newer cards. Depending on what you want to do, a $20 S3 card might do you very well instead. --ts Jeff Lawton writes: >I just got through purchasing and putting together my system, which I >usually do only every few years, and it has a Matrox G100 Productiva >card with 8 megs on it. When I tried to bring up the SVGA X server, it >seems no matter what I do or tell it about my system, it complains about >my "unrecognized" video card and immediately proceeds to assume that I >have only 64k of video RAM - nothing I've found seems to override its >"automatic" disgust! Also, isn't there supposed to be some "on-line" >assistance for X server, some man pages or something? I can't find >anything. I don't want to get another card until I know this one CANNOT >be made to work by enabling some simple "escape" option. Thank you in >advance! - - Jeff Lawton > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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