Is G400 compatible with Red Hat Linux?

[Ken D]

Just curious, since I am going to go to the better operating system of Linux (bye bye screen of Death, incompatability problems, security problems, bloatware, etc. etc.) Do you just configure it like a G200? Just curious.....

[PurpleHaze]

Well, hmm, tell you what, I'm gonna throw LILO back on my machine tonight since 98SE hosed it... and I'll let you know. If it doesn't work I'm sure that SuSE will support it soon. But I heard from someone it works just like the G200 in there. I'm running AccelX so it's pretty picky. (I may get rid of that, accelx.)

Email me or something and I'll let you know how it goes tonight.

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Ami Y. Koriuchi - foxyviolet@hotmail.com
Asus P2B 1010 - P3-500 - And a G400Max now.
256MB 6NS 70 GB of 10k RPM SCSI UW

Mustard is illegal here.

[bobby2]

The G400 works fine with Linux.
Just make sure that you get an up to date version of RedHat - failing that, download a recent version of XFree86 (3.3.4 is fine). This screenshot is of my desktop running KDE at 1280x1024x32bit on a G400 DualHead 32Meg.

The server to use is the XSVGA server which suports the G400 amongst others.

Its gorgeous. http://www.ccsr.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~rl/Misc/g400.gif

bert

[Zypher]

Pretty much any vesa spec card is 'compatible' with linux in general.

The *real* questions is how many features of the card can linux use? Can it use all the ram? Use the highest resolutions? Use 2d and/or 3d acceleration? etc etc etc etc

That all boils down to drivers, possibly from official sources, official but unsupported (common) or third party (e.g. geeks who bought one and want to use more of it, and go read lots of files

Pretty much anything you could find will at least run in its vesa modes...and all but few will run in the 'ultra compatible' modes.

[Zypher]

Oops. Almost forgot the point.

AFAIK, g400 will run in linux with all its vesa modes, and some more. I don't think matrox has drivers for it, but there are 3rd party drivers that are pretty good. MAtrox released many specs and is giving some help to those guys. This is all AFAIK so don't flame if I'm wrong.

[kewlcat]

See the thread in Alternative Lifestyles called "New XFree86 is out"

[kewlcat]

Here's a link:

<a href="http://forums.murc.ws/ubb/Forum1/HTML/000110.html">Here.</a>

Enjoy!


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Abit BH6, Celeron 300a@450, G400 32MB DualHead, 128MB RAM, WD26500 6.4GB, SBLive! Value.

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[Grimace]

I have a G400Max running with the 3.3.5 Xserver and the GLX OpenGL alpha drivers. For plain 2D, it works perfectly. The 3D is coming along very nicely. I can play Quake 3 Arena with the High Quality settings and everything on in the Game Options (except Vsync) and get 29.8 FPS. Granted, this is not as good as Win98 yet but the score is without multitexturing! When they add that, I have little doubt that they'll beat the Matrox Win98 drivers hands down.

Still, getting the GLX stuff working is not for the Linux newcomer. I would guess that in the next month or so, you'll be able to download an RPM that will "just work".

[kewlcat]

Hi Grimace

What resolution you getting the 29.8 fps at?

I am wondering if it's worth downloading the GLX stuff and figuring out how to install it just yet.

Thanks.

Rahul

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Abit BH6, Celeron 300a@450, G400 32MB DualHead, 128MB RAM, WD26500 6.4GB, SBLive! Value.

[Ken D]

I didn't know that there were that many people using Linux and G400's. This is VERY good news. Thanks for all the information...

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[Gum]

I can't seem to set the resolution beyond 320x200(aka virtual desktop).
This resulted in really over-sized desktop on my RedHat 6.0 + OEM G400 16Mb.
I'm using the SuperVGA server and have been successful running the desktop at 1024x768 16bit using old CL Banshee 16Mb AGP.

Someone pls help?

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AsusP5A rev1007, K6-400 o/c to 448 (112*4), 128Mb Micron PC100 -8E SDRAM, G400 OEM 16Mb AGP, IBM 16GP 8.4, Quantum ST 3.2A, Toshiba 32X CDROM, HP CDWriter 7570i, SBLive! Value, Intel EtherXpress Pro 100TX NIC, Motorola CableModem, RIC 17" Monitor, HP Deskjet 710C, Altec Lansing ACS45 & Cambridge PCWorks

[Grimace]

HQ setting: 800x600

You can obviously go up from there by reducing the quality some.