Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Sep 1998 22:33:52 +0200 (MET DST) | From | Riccardo Facchetti <> | Subject | Re: G100 driver ... |
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On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Harvey Fishman wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Davide Libenzi wrote: > > > Is ther anybody working on Matrox G100 ( Productiva ) driver for linux ? > > > > What is the development status ? > > > > If nobody is working on, Is there anybody that can let me know where to find > > Matrox G100 datasheet ? > > Why on earth does Linux need a Matrox G100 driver? Linux is a text mode > thingie. XWindows or SVGA or other application software may require a > driver, but not Linux. My Productiva works fine with Linux.
Hmm ... this days of "framebuffer console" I think this is not completely true any more. Yes, Linux can still do simple VGA console but I've heard just yersterday that there is a matroxfb with matrox specific accelerations.
> In any case, Matrox claims that there is one universal driver for ALL of > their display adapters. So if there is any Matrox driver for the app of > your choice, you might try it.
No. This is definitely not true. Yes, matrox have published on the net a series of "unified drivers" but that unified IMHO means just "archived into one single ZIP file". In fact in the last (v.343) BIOS update, you can find a series of 10 .BIN files. Every BIN file is a BIOS update for a specific matrox product.
Similarly I suspect the NT 4 unified driver just read the kind of video hardware is installed on the machine and act accordingly: Matrox mystique/millenium/g100/g200 have different properties so every product must be managed for what it can do and what it can't.
Ciao, Riccardo.
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