Call out to all Parhelia owners out there.

midnightflash · Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 10:26 am Post subject:

I understand this meaning... and I'm not lucky anyway... but just this moment we can use Xorg-7.1.1 and the NV- and ATI-users are stuck...

OK... others pain is nearly my pain! And when I think about the last four years... :evil:

It's not only Matrox... it's all the proprietary-S§$% that sucks!

frilled · Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 6:24 pm Post subject:

What can I say. You're right. I still enjoy my MGA 400, 450 and 550. And I do enjoy my older Atis as well as an Nvidia. Actually, the sucky Intel shared memory onboards kinda rock ... sad game. Fortunately, I don't really need 3D on Linux (rss-glx, mostly ^^), but my Ati x1900xt doesn't even have native 2D support since the guy who reverse engineered the driver can't release it ... what a crap world, to be sure.
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midnightflash · Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 7:36 pm Post subject:

I thought the reverse-engineer got some insight into the proprietary-ATI-sources. And by using these some afterwritten script-lines they don't allow him to publish the driver.

Right?

I got another motherboard and an X1600 laying here around at the moment, both PCIe. Would just need an AMD64-CPU to get it to run... but without Linux?!?

frilled · Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 7:41 pm Post subject:

Hmyeah, guess it was like that. He was a (former?) ATI employee or stuff. Dunno, I already forgot since it annoyed me to hell.

Well, I openly admit I *do* have a windoze partition. It's a game launcher exclusively, and it's all windoze can deliver ... for me. I do hope I will be able to use the card once gaming has died (which will be quite soon), let's say half a year from now. If I can't, well, frigg it. I got enough legacy hardware for a couple of years ...
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GlennBooth · n00b Joined: 30 Sep 2006 Posts: 1

Hi All,

I just got through my first Gentoo install (yay!) and the time came to install X and
the graphics drivers, and this is the first thread I found about the Parhelia... it
doesn't look promising!

It's a darned shame it's so difficult to get things working right.. I worked at Matrox
for eight years, so I know what the attitude to linux drivers is (i.e. pretty much the
same as it is at ATi and nVidia!). I got the Parhelia working well in Dual Screen
in Ubuntu 5.04/5.10/6.06, but it seems Gentoo might not be so easy.

I'm going to give the Parhelia drivers my best shot, but it seems that pretty much all
the big names in graphics cards only release drivers that are closed in some way,
so what is the best option for decent multi-screen support? Are there any 'recommended'
cards to look for?

I need to drive two 1280*1024 DVI panels. 3D isn't a big deal, but it would be nice.
Any recommendations for a decent AGP card?

My wife is running a GeForce 6600 with decent results on two DVI panels under Gentoo
(her Parhelia is now in a static bag under the desk!). Anything better out there?

Thanks,

Glenn.

midnightflash · Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 3:37 pm Post subject:

Hi Glenn,
I think it's all the same... ATI, nVidia, Matrox... you shouldn't care to much. It's all crap with Linux! By now I would recommend an nVidia. And if the Parhelia is working... why changing it? ;-)

And especially at this moment the (inofficial) MTX-driver is OK. But we are highly depending on tuxx-home.at (Alex Grieser)! If he brakes away it might become critical!

CU... Mid

frilled · Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 2:10 pm Post subject:

Actually, Radeons up to X800 (or 850 ... hmm, not sure; I can confirm X700pro and X800, though) do have working GLX with the open source drivers now. Which is kinda nice ^^
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