Does anyone have lastest P drivers?

[piaxVirus]

Matrox's FTP server is down. So I need to find someone that can sent them to me.

I just got my P, but I can't get it to recognize more then one monitor. I selected DH independent when installing the CD drivers. PowerDesk-HF will run (it's in the task man.) but there is no icon or window.

I have Win2K with SP2. I installed .net with SP2 before I installed the drivers. After uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers. I get have the same problems.

I only have two hours to try TH and surround gaming. Before the card gets taken home to my DH setup.

[albatorsk]

Sorry, it is illegal to redistribute the drivers without written consent from Matrox.

[UberLord]

Originally posted by albatorsk
Sorry, it is illegal to redistribute the drivers without written consent from Matrox.

I think he's asking for the latest released Drivers, not the leaked ones.

Matrox's FTP is down from my end as well, so this looks like a kosha request.

I'd forward em myself, but I'm on isdn 64k and can't spare the bandwidth atm :/

[albatorsk]

From the driver EULA:

1. No right to recopy, sell, distribute, license, sub-license, alter, modify, disassemble, de-compile or reverse engineer any
driver in any manner whatsoever is hereby given. Violation may result in severe civil and/or criminal penalties as violators will be
prosecuted to the maximum extent possible;

3. You may not provide or disclose the Software to any third party;

6. You may not make telecommunication data transmissions of the Software.

Without limiting any of the foregoing, copying or reproducing any Software to any other server or location for further reproduction or
redistribution is expressly prohibited.

I'd say it's pretty obvious Matrox doesn't want us to redistribute their drivers.

[Wombat]

Or anybody else's drivers. They have the same EULA on the Linux drivers, which aren't really theirs. I tell them that it's illegal, but they don't care.

[Pace]

Have Matrox given up on the Linux game? It seemed like a lot of companies joined on the bandwagon for a while (hello and goodbye Corel/Adobe on the software side), how are the other big hardware manuf's doing with Linux support?

P.

[albatorsk]

IBM, nVidia, ATi, Sun, Tekram, Adaptec and HP (just to name a few) are actively supporting Linux. Creative has been somewhat nice too, setting up the opensource-subdomain to creative.com, and opensourcing their SB Live-driver a few years ago.

Matrox has promised Linux drivers, and I do trust them to deliver, but I'd just hope they would work a little bit faster. You can only do "so much" with unaccelerated VESA drivers.

[Pace]

I thought Creative had given up as well, guess not

How far does HPs support go - into the consumer sector? This is the area I was really meaning. In other words, can I get good drivers for HP digicams, printers, scanners?

Are NVIDIA's and ATI's drivers good?

[albatorsk]

Creative is even hosting the OpenAL CVS

HP provides their own drivers for printers. Shamelessly cut'n'pasted from their site :

HP’s business leadership in printing solutions extends to Linux. All of the HP LaserJet business printer families are fully functional in Linux environments. You can take advantage of significantly faster print speeds, advanced paper handling, and reliable networking. Linux drivers are also available for more than 60 HP inkjet printers, and Linux support is also available on most HP Officejet printers.

HP is actively working with the Linux printing and imaging development community to create even more effective solutions for your Linux printing environment.

The following links lead to driver download and resource pages at SourceForge as well as additional information on hp printers and linux.

http://www.hp.com/united-states/linux/

I've never tried ATi's drivers, but I had a Geforce 3 before the Parhelia, and their drivers were rock solid. It never crashed, ever. And that's on a SMP system, with all sorts of race conditions and stuff that proprietary drivers usually suffer from.

[Novdid]

ATI released their own Linux drivers just a couple of weeks ago, don't know how good they are though.

[kaasboer]

Hi,

yes, the NVidia-drivers are good and fast, they seem to have a common codebase with the Win-drivers.

Ati has just startet to deliver drivers for the Radeon 8500:

http://mirror.ati.com/support/drivers/linux/linuxradeon8500x420143.html

Any experiences with these drivers, anyone?

cu,
kaasboer

[Maggi]

Hi Guys,

it's still there, but it seems the direct d/l link is somewhat screwed up.

just use this link
ftp://ftp.matrox.com/pub/mga/archive/2kxp/2002/
and d/l 2kxp_100_04.exe manually

[Ant]

The MURC has written approval from Matrox that it may redistribute their drivers from this site.

[Novdid]

Excellent!!!

[Maggi]

I mailed with Matrox' webmaster and he's working on this issue ...