Who has a Matrox Board and Linux!!!

[Six Of One]

G400 16MB SH in a Debian SID box - no MS Windows at all anymore...

[nikai]

Millenium 1, Millenium 2, G400, all with Gentoo Linux.

For a while I was considering a Parhelia, but I'm sad to say that my next card most probably won't be a Matrox.

[ChrisR]

G400 Dualhead on Mandrake 9.0 with Enlightenment 0.16.5 driving a Sony 420GS and a 17sfII. It's purty.

[The AngeL]

That's really melody sound in myears when i see so many linuy Users here online.

[leech]

You've got to love linux. Personally I love debian, just because most things are packaged for it, and with my 1.5mb/s DSL line, I can have a packaged downloaded and installed in a matter of minutes/seconds. The only drawback is that sometimes the packages aren't updated as often as I'd like (xmame being one of the ones that seems to stay forever at one version number. It's still at 0.59.1, where as the latest release is 0.61.1. Also they need xmame.SDL packaged)

Leech

[The AngeL]

Originally posted by leech
You've got to love linux. Personally I love debian, just because most things are packaged for it, and with my 1.5mb/s DSL line, I can have a packaged downloaded and installed in a matter of minutes/seconds. The only drawback is that sometimes the packages aren't updated as often as I'd like (xmame being one of the ones that seems to stay forever at one version number. It's still at 0.59.1, where as the latest release is 0.61.1. Also they need xmame.SDL packaged)

Leech

I love this OS. I only wait for Adobe Photoshop 8.0 Linuxversion and then i ll kick my win2k out of my PC.

[Eon]

I got a pair - at home - of P3-S SMP machines running RHAS 2.1 and G450s Millennium - works just fine.

[leech]

Originally posted by The AngeL
I love this OS. I only wait for Adobe Photoshop 8.0 Linuxversion and then i ll kick my win2k out of my PC.

Any ideas on IF/WHEN this'll happen? It'd be very cool to see that ported over.

Leech

[albatorsk]

Yeah, it's about the same time as when pigs grow wings and fly away.

[The AngeL]

Originally posted by albatorsk
Yeah, it's about the same time as when pigs grow wings and fly away.

All about a linuxport for Photoshop are just rumors from some Investors of Adobe, but if the guys make this little more Work, then a lot of Designers would take a lot of effort of this, because linux is free on the interenet to download and so they could spare money fron the windows licences.

[leech]

Yup, and Adobe have ported a few things over to linux already. Framemaker being one of them, and acroreader of course.

Leech

[jegeren88]

Matrox board and Linux

Hi,

I've recently ported to Linux at work (Mandrake 8.2) running XFree86 4.2.1 with KDE 3.0.3.
I've got a Matrox Millenium G450, but I got problems compiling drivers for XFree86 4.2.1 (please read my post "How do I compile Matrox Beta 2.0 drivers on my XFree86 V 4.2.1 server ? ")

at the moment I use VMware and windows on a virtual machine for my everyday applications, but my goal is more wine and on the long run getting rid of windows



jegeren

[DentyCracker]

Reinstalled Mandrake 8.2 on a little 3GB drive last week. Runs fine except that I have to use the OSS (non free) drivers to get sound out of the audigy2. Using the out of the box video drivers. Should get MDK 9.1 when it comes out and see how that goes. I left my copies of BeOS at home. Might pick them up when I visit on holidays next month.

[nehalmistry]

G200 on slackware...

dentycracker: since jan 20, the drivers developed by
creative labs (free & open-source) have audigy 2
support i believe.. these drivers are OSS api compatible,
go here for info:

http://opensource.creative.com/

im pretty sure they will be ported to alsa in no time.
(i found though on my live!, patches/routes can't
be added on alsa like they can with Creative drivers, not
sure how things work with audigy 2 though..)

i found the support of EMU10Kx chips are not as well
supported as in win32, still many features missing
(most notably, EAX)

also some models are better supported than others
(eg, i heard mine doesn't work with digital output
but i cant test)

[zeke]

G200 mms quad board, using slackware 9.0beta, on a dual celeron bp6
system running at 550Mhz.

Still trying to get all the bugs out of the system. It runs ok, albeit a bit
slow (PCI bus sucks when you have 4 monitors hooked up), but is
currently hanging X several times a day.

Wish I could get DRI working with at least 1 head, though. (I know, I know,
the matrox DRI code is currently AGP-only) I'd like to putter around with some OpenGL apps, and swapping out boards just for that stinks.

zeke