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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!torn!nott!bcarh189.bnr.ca!bmerhc5e.bnr.ca!mlord From: mlord@bnr.ca (Mark Lord) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Why to not buy Matrox Millennium Date: 26 Mar 1996 17:45:33 GMT Organization: BNR Ottawa, Canada Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4j9aft$pa1@bmerhc5e.bnr.ca> References: <4j21ph$crr@slappy.cs.utexas.edu> <4j36ev$prl@news.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE> <4j3dl9$1jv@solaris.cc.vt.edu> <slrn4lep8k.jj.dek@lc2.ucsf.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bmerha23.bnr.ca Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.apps:13613 comp.os.linux.development.system:19939 comp.os.linux.x:27506 comp.os.linux.hardware:34232 comp.os.linux.setup:47030 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:280 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:2761 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2540 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:15933 In article <slrn4lep8k.jj.dek@lc2.ucsf.edu> dek@cgl.ucsf.edu writes: >In article <4j3dl9$1jv@solaris.cc.vt.edu>, erik@fenris.campus.vt.edu wrote: >(Re: Matrox Millenium) >>: their cards and programming interface. They are afraid of reverse >>: engineering - as are many of the pc card vendors - did you ever care to > >the real question is : does Xinside support Matrox & actually take advantagae >of the fast graphics or is it just using a 'normal mode'? > >The MetroLink2.x OpenGL server does not yet support hardware acceleration. >I am interested in how to acquire hardware-accelerated OpenGl on Linux. Find the answer yourself on their Web page.. (something like www.xinside.com) -- Mark Lord -- mlord@pobox.com -- mlord@bnr.ca For Linux IDE (big/many) help, see: /usr/src/linux/drivers/block/README.ide For latest Linux kernels: ftp.cs.helsinki.fi:/pub/Software/Linux/Kernel/v1.[23]