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  • #1

    Matrox Parhelia Linux driver

    Is it just me, or has Matrox been saying "Coming soon" for almost 2 months now? And in every preview on the net, Matrox stated that Linux drivers would be included in the box. Where are they? I don't really care about HW OpenGL, I just want ultrafast 2D with DGA and Xv support... Please..?
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  • #2
    Yeah, I feel your pain.

    I'm hoping that the Parhelia Win2K/WinXP driver-of-the-week releases will result in a more stable Linux/XFree86 initial release when it finally occures. I too want drivers for my OS right now, but I don't mind if WinXX users act as guinea pigs for the basic driver functionality.

    I can hardly wait to get the 2D functionality so that I can start moaning about the missing 3D support.

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    • #3
      I think they said September.
      I hope they are multi platform instead of Linux only...
      P4 Northwood 1.8GHz@2.7GHz 1.65V Albatron PX845PEV Pro
      Running two Dell 2005FPW 20" Widescreen LCD
      And of course, Matrox Parhelia | My Matrox histroy: Mill-I, Mill-II, Mystique, G400, Parhelia

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      • #4
        Well, isn't it, by neccessity just an XFree86 driver that they'll release (at least initially, since 3D support is kernel specific.)? So I wouldn't worry about not being able to use it on *BSD or other *nix's as long as you use Xfree86.

        Or are you talking about for other Architectures? (I want my 64-bit stuff already, damnit!)

        Leech
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        • #5
          Hmm... I don't think 3D acceleration is necessary to be kernel specific. (I don't think GATOS driver is kernel specific, or is it? Okay I'll admit I'm not 100% sure). However, what about triple-head?

          But if they're like nVidia guys, the driver cannot be used under *BSD. If they do it the G400 way, of course it's fine with me.

          By the way I'm also looking forward to the 64-bit day....
          P4 Northwood 1.8GHz@2.7GHz 1.65V Albatron PX845PEV Pro
          Running two Dell 2005FPW 20" Widescreen LCD
          And of course, Matrox Parhelia | My Matrox histroy: Mill-I, Mill-II, Mystique, G400, Parhelia

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          • #6
            Originally posted by WyWyWyWy
            Hmm... I don't think 3D acceleration is necessary to be kernel specific. (I don't think GATOS driver is kernel specific, or is it? Okay I'll admit I'm not 100% sure). However, what about triple-head?

            But if they're like nVidia guys, the driver cannot be used under *BSD. If they do it the G400 way, of course it's fine with me.

            By the way I'm also looking forward to the 64-bit day....
            Where were you when I was arguing this in another thread about the 64-bit?

            I'm not sure about Gatos. DRI is kernel specific, I always thought that's why nVidia cards don't work in *BSD is because they don't use the opensource DRI stuff, but their very own driver. *BSD had the linux compatible DRI for the opensource ones I believe (Of course I'm far from an expert on *BSD I gave up on FreeBSD after I found out my soundcard would lock the machine up when I loaded the module.)

            Leech
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            In a perfect world... spammers would get caught, go to jail, and share a cell with many men who have enlarged their penises, taken Viagra and are looking for a new relationship.

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            • #7
              DRI is kernel specific. There are seprate DRI branches for Linux and FreeBSD. The Linux side of the tree has far outpaced the FreeBSD side in recent years, but there is finally significant work underway to bring the FreeBSD branch up to speed and make development across OSes easier.

              Nvidia doesn't use DRI at all. They use their own proprietary driver architecture for X. It does require an OS specific kernel module. Right now Nvidia only supports Linux, but rumors of FreeBSD support are likely to come true when 5.0 is released in November.

              It would be a great loss if Matrox ignored the FreeBSD community when releasing Parhelia drivers. The P would be the fastest card available for FreeBSD. Every hardcore FreeBSD user (like me) would rush out and buy one ASAP no matter how much it cost!

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              • #8
                I don't think they will, but then again what do I know? Hopefully they'll follow what they've been doing with the Gxxx cards.

                My question to FreeBSD users.... why isn't BASH installed as the default shell? SH sucks. :-) I played with FreeBSD for awhile, but decided I liked Debian linux better. (Got to love Apt-get, especially when you download packages at 160kps)

                Leech
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                In a perfect world... spammers would get caught, go to jail, and share a cell with many men who have enlarged their penises, taken Viagra and are looking for a new relationship.

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                • #9
                  nVidia driver doesn't officially support FreeBSD even on the 2D side! By the way, the FreeBSD nVidia Driver Initiative has some words on its page, which reads... "Things are happening. Real Soon Now. Any Day Now."

                  Default shell on FreeBSD is TCSH not SH, which is as powerful as BASH in other ways. (They say ZSH is the most powerful, I haven't tried it yet.)
                  P4 Northwood 1.8GHz@2.7GHz 1.65V Albatron PX845PEV Pro
                  Running two Dell 2005FPW 20" Widescreen LCD
                  And of course, Matrox Parhelia | My Matrox histroy: Mill-I, Mill-II, Mystique, G400, Parhelia

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                  • #10
                    Maybe I just messed something up when I installed FreeBSD then, 'cause it was SH. Anyhow I thought that the 2d support was still there through XFree86.

                    Leech
                    Wah! Wah!

                    In a perfect world... spammers would get caught, go to jail, and share a cell with many men who have enlarged their penises, taken Viagra and are looking for a new relationship.

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                    • #11
                      The reason that SH is the default shell on any proper Unix is because bash is not <I>completely</I> sh compatible. 99%, but not quite there. Lots of programs are/rely on/use to compile shell scripts - and those are written to sh since it's ubiquitous. It's all about compatibility.

                      Ugh, tcsh. Broken.

                      zsh is quite nifty.
                      Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.

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                      • #12
                        That's true, whenever I run install scripts and stuff, I run them with the standard sh. Bash is what I usually use. Can't remember if I ever tried ZSH, I think I have though.

                        Leech
                        Wah! Wah!

                        In a perfect world... spammers would get caught, go to jail, and share a cell with many men who have enlarged their penises, taken Viagra and are looking for a new relationship.

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                        • #13
                          So, it's September and there's still no trace of the drivers

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