[clug] Video Cards for Linux

[Tomasz Ciolek]

 G450 is not supported... g200 and g400 are...

On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 08:46:43PM +1100, Sam Couter wrote:
> Tomasz Ciolek <tmc at dreamcraft.com.au> wrote:
> > Try Matrox g200 or g400, any of the Radeon (except 9600's i think).
> 
> I have a Matrox G450, which is a nice card, but I have to disable all
> the acceleration (even 2D) to make it work right!
> 
> With acceleration enabled I get a lot of font droppings and missing
> text. Bad bad bad. Waste of money. I'm not the only one either:
> 
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=225753
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=232390
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=66697
> 
> I have a dual-head setup, and Xinerama disables the 3D acceleration (not
> that I use it for anything more than GL screensavers) anyway. All in
> all, I'd have been much better off spending $30 on a cheap and nasty
> card. What I've got was expensive and still nasty.
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