22 Jun
2006
22 Jun
'06
12:06 a.m.
Ron:
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.
Hallo,
Lee Revell hat gesagt: // Lee Revell wrote:
people on this list
The G400 requires mga_hal which is a binary and blah,
freakin blah. Link S. dropped his G400 buy the studio
for me to try out. I think the G450 is a solid buy for
technical and usability requirements. It's said to run
out of the box and with dual monitor support at that.
I'm gonna go find one. On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 14:27 -0400, Dave Robillard
wrote:
Boycott
by buying what?
Via or Intel. Yes it's not "high end" but most really don't need S3TC or whatever the hell
it's
called. This is
linux-audio-user, not linux-gamer-fanboy.
Or an old and gold Matrox G450, 
22 Jun
22 Jun
12:17 a.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] Re: which graphics card?
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.
i had one of these in 2001, driving a dual setup. there were ghosts of the second screen
on the first. and oddly, it was a ghost of the VGA screen on the DVI screen (at the time,
the cards didnt have DVI, but they had this addon bridge thing which was unshielded pins
to another connector on a second pci slot). the bottom line is, the signal quality was
questionable, and the cards are massively obsolete.
12:48 a.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] Re: which graphics card?
On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 02:17 +0000, carmen wrote:
I'd chalk that up to the weird DVI thingy. My G400 has (had, at least)
the best analog output quality of any card I compared it against (3dfx,
ati, nvidia offerings at the time)
They might be "obsolete", but if there were free drivers for it, I would
probably be the proud new owner of a dual DVI G*** right now.
-DR-
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.
i had one of these in 2001, driving a dual setup. there were ghosts of
the second screen on the first. and oddly, it was a ghost of the VGA
screen on the DVI screen (at the time, the cards didnt have DVI, but
they had this addon bridge thing which was unshielded pins to another
connector on a second pci slot). the bottom line is, the signal
quality was questionable, and the cards are massively obsolete. 
10:58 a.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] Re: which graphics card?
On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 02:17 +0000, carmen wrote:
are you sure this wasn't a cable issue? i've had similar problems caused
by using cheaper cabling that went away when i paid out for high end
cabling (my cable runs were long)
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.
i had one of these in 2001, driving a dual setup. there were ghosts of the second screen
on the first. and oddly, it was a ghost of the VGA screen on the DVI screen (at the time,
the cards didnt have DVI, but they had this addon bridge thing which was unshielded pins
to another connector on a second pci slot). the bottom line is, the signal quality was
questionable, and the cards are massively obsolete. 
6:16 a.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] Re: which graphics card?
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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9:28 a.m.
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Hallo,
Kjetil S. Matheussen hat gesagt: // Kjetil S.
Matheussen wrote:
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
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
--
Frank Barknecht _
______footils.org_ __goto10.org__
12:02 p.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] Re: which graphics card?
Hallo,
R Parker hat gesagt: // R Parker wrote:
--- Frank Barknecht <fbar(a)footils.org> wrote:
Ah, sorry: no, I wasn't. I guess, there mga_hal is/was needed, I don't
know.
Ciao
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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? 
23 Jun
23 Jun
3:59 a.m.
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Frank Barknecht <fbar(a)footils.org> writes:
I wasn't. I guess, there mga_hal is/was needed
Yes, this is correct. I had g400 before my g550. You needed
proprietary software if you wanted to use both outputs. Of course, I
never did;).
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