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From: gbuchanan@on.sympatico.ca (Gardner Buchanan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Millenium with Xfree?
Date: 29 Apr 1997 00:59:53 GMT
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In article <3364CBA6.967@isr.uc.pt>,
	Pedro Miguel das Neves Valenca Rocha <pmrocha@isr.uc.pt> writes:
> Hi, I'm thinking of buying a Millenium and I was wondering how is its
> support under Xfree86. I know there is svga server; are all
> resolutions/colors available?

Read all about Matrox support at:

   http://www.bf.rmit.edu.au/~ajv/xf86-matrox.html

as well as at:

   http://www.xfree86.org

The current (binary only) alpha test Millenium driver is by all reports
pretty good.

> 
> I was thinking about the Mystique, but XFree support means a lot to me
> (640x480 is horrible). TIA

There is nothing on the Mystique yet, though evidently the people who
would write it now actually have the Matrox MGA tech docs, so something
will eventually appear.  X-wise (ie: 2D) the Millenium is a better card
anyway.

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Gardner Buchanan    <gbuchanan@sympatico.ca>
Ottawa, ON