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I look every once in a while to see if there are new parhelia drivers for linux, and found today that there IS new drivers, but only for the Gxxx series cards. Curse my bad luck, I want some 3D drivers for my parhelia.
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Hey at least they are working on it! And thanks for the heads up cause I have a G200.Gigabyte GA-K8N Ultra 9, Opteron 170 Denmark 2x2Ghz, 2 GB Corsair XMS, Gigabyte 6600, Gentoo Linux
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Thought they dropped the plan :O
Anyway it is nice to see, but where is Parhelia?P4 Northwood 1.8GHz@2.7GHz 1.65V Albatron PX845PEV Pro
Running two Dell 2005FPW 20" Widescreen LCD
And of course, Matrox Parhelia | My Matrox histroy: Mill-I, Mill-II, Mystique, G400, ParheliaComment
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I see nothing new here
I downloaded the 2.1BETA binary drivers set to update my system (RHL v7.3, XFree86 v4.2.0 & G400MAX). The installer informed me that my (existing 2.0BETA) drivers were already up to date. Hmmm.
Looking beneath mgadrivers/xfree86/4.2.0 I see that the drivers do in fact have the same timestamps and file sizes as my exiting drivers. I fact, *all* the drivers in this package have year-old timestamps (Jan/Feb of 2002). The only file that is shown as being less than a year old is the README file.
I don't get it. What is the point of this "new" packages of drivers?Comment
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Re: I see nothing new here
Nevermind. Just went to Matrox's support forum and saw that the sole change is the installation script now works with XFree86 v4.2.1.Originally posted by Steve Snyder
I don't get it. What is the point of this "new" packages of drivers?
(That merits a change from v2.0 to v2.1????)Comment
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Okay that means they indeed dropped the plan.P4 Northwood 1.8GHz@2.7GHz 1.65V Albatron PX845PEV Pro
Running two Dell 2005FPW 20" Widescreen LCD
And of course, Matrox Parhelia | My Matrox histroy: Mill-I, Mill-II, Mystique, G400, ParheliaComment
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Well... that kinda sucks.Gigabyte GA-K8N Ultra 9, Opteron 170 Denmark 2x2Ghz, 2 GB Corsair XMS, Gigabyte 6600, Gentoo Linux
Motion Computing M1400 -- Tablet PC, Ubuntu Linux
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Sorry to get everyone's hopes up. Limey gits, well, let me just ask this real fast, is there a lot of remaining bugs in the Gxxx drivers for Xfree86? The Parhelia is missing any 3D and also Xvideo extensions, which makes watching DVD's a horrible slideshow when full screen. When I had my Marvel G400 in my system, it worked wonderfully, if a bit slow in linux.
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Well, there's still some issues with multi-display corruptness, and I'm not really convinced whether this is from Xfree86's code or matrox's.
There is of course the lack of tv-out on anything post g400, regardless of their motivations for that one.Tilable Desktop Backgrounds, perfect for DualHead: http://bg.rifetech.com/Comment
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Hmm.... XF86 4.3 will be released soon, very soon, which would surely fix something (and break something?) and might even have some more support for these chips...P4 Northwood 1.8GHz@2.7GHz 1.65V Albatron PX845PEV Pro
Running two Dell 2005FPW 20" Widescreen LCD
And of course, Matrox Parhelia | My Matrox histroy: Mill-I, Mill-II, Mystique, G400, ParheliaComment
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