On 2012-01-07, Christian Weisgerber <na...@mips.inka.de> wrote: > Jure Pe?ar <pega...@nerv.eu.org> wrote: > >> I remember Matrox G450 as being well supported even by XFree86. They have >> G550 dual dvi model, no expirience with it though. > > Well, since we seem to be reminiscing instead of checking current > facts--which would be work and sort of boring, you know, so why > bother--let me tell you that I remember newer Matrox cards not being > supported at all, and even the supported ones required a binary > blob to enable DVI, or maybe it was higher resolutions than 800x600 > on DVI. >
Single DVI typically works on the Gx50, but dual DVI requires the blob. Parhelia cards (the "new" GPU first released in 2002) and M-series aren't supported. These days you generally want to be using Intel or ATI based video hardware for your main X displays (and stay a generation or two behind the cutting edge if you want something where most features work). udl(4) might be a viable option for additional screens if you don't need them to be super-fast.
