22 Jun
2006
22 Jun
'06
6:16 a.m.
Hallo,
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).
Regarding matrox, heres my experiences with 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
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