[ale] "Ultimate System"

[Mandrake]

On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 01:14:56PM -0500, J. Reeves Hall wrote:
> > Video card(s).  So, what's the deal with dual cards..I do understand the
> > Matrox G400 works under Metro-X, but can I put two cards (1 agp and 1 pci)
> > in a Linux box??  The matrox doesn't really impress me as a "great" gaming
> > card so I would like to get a voodoo or something similar for Quake and
> > something more run of the mill --a S3 or whatever the "flavor of the month"
> > is--for the second monitor.
> 
> The G400 is a dual-headed card (ie, it has two video outs on the back panel).
> XFree86 does support the card, but I don't think it can use both outputs.
> Metro-X and Xi can I believe. In any case, 2D graphics are extremely fast, and
> further support is in development.

The second head on this card is a joke.  at 115 mhz, it's almost 1/3 the speed
of the primary head.  with little hardware acceleration on the chip, (no
multiple depth, no hadrware cursor, etc) this is little more than just a toy.
if you REALLY want multihead, I'd buy some PCI g200s and an AGP g200 (that's
what I use at home) and run 3.9 (.17 as soon as it comes out)

OR, if you are interested in building a video wall - matrox just sent me a
prototype of the 4head g200 card (with four fullspeed dacs on it) PCI version.
This should be particularly good once we can get past the bios problem - we're
waiting to hear back from matrox about it.

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