Subject: Re: X cards
To: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
From: Jon Lindgren <jlindgren@espus.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/21/1999 15:44:00
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:

> *DO NOT* buy an ATI card that uses the "Rage 128" chipset -- these are
> the TV Wonder 128, Rage Fury, XPERT99, and a few others.  There is no
> X server for these except a very buggy Linux server for which the
> maintainer piously claims the source is availble but for which, as far as
> I can tell, it actually is not.

Thanks for that!

> The other option is a Matrox Millenium MGA200 or MGA400.  The MGA400
> may require -current, or at least that you run an X server built
> from current source.  Either will work great; the MGA400 is a
> dual-head model and is only about $20 more.

Does the dual headed functionality actually work?  And if so, can you run
different resolutions on each?  That'd be pretty nifty...

-Jon Lindgren
 "Xyzzy!  You're a duck!"
 jlindgren@espus.com, yubyub@yubyub.net