[ale] video card recommendation?

[Christopher Bergeron]

I run Matrox cards on my linux boxen.  I don't play games or really 
_push_ the graphics cards to their limits though.  If you enter the 
Matrox linux forum, there's a guy named Brian (I think) [an employee] 
and he provides great and quick linux support.  The only boards that 
I've used are the g450 and g400, so they're a little bit out dated these 
days - but my primary use was the DualHead displays.  At any rate, the 
Matrox linux support forum is suprisingly helpful.  The corporation, 
however, doesn't always release all of the details necessary to utilize 
all of the features of their cards.  As such, you'll get superb customer 
support, but limited [linux] functionality (due to corporate 
infrastructure) with the Matrox cards.

Albeit a mixed review, but a review none-the-less -
-CB




Marvin Dickens wrote:

>On Mon, 2003-05-26 at 19:19, ChangingLINKS.com wrote:
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>>I have just bought a Matrox card (due to Geoffrey and Suse's comments) and an 
>>ATI to see if one will install correctly from boot.
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>The Matrox cards are probably the best supported cards in Linux if you
>look at it from a single video card vendor point of view. Further, my
>experience with Matrox cards goes all the way back to the old IBM
>6150/51 RT: Matrox made the MegaPixel frame buffer card that went into 
>that machine. For it's time, that card was *AWESOME*.
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>Regarding 3D abilities of matrox cards in Linux, I have absolutely no
>experience. Please post the results to this list. I am interested to
>find out what you think from a performance point of view.
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>Best
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>M. Dickens
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