Review of the Matrox G450 For Linux

The Evil Dwarf from Hell writes "Hardware sites for the most part concentrate their reviews of new equipment for the Windoze OS. AnandTech has a head to head review of the Linux drivers for the GeForce2 MX and the Matrox G450. The GeForce2 MX dominates in the test scores, but the G450 is interesting in its ability to use 2 monitors simultaneously. A single desktop that is 3840x1280 is incredible."

Comments

Re:Are the MATROX drivers open source as well?

[SquadBoy]

AFAIK, The matrox drivers have been OSS from almost the start. On the other hand the EULA from Nvidia says this. "No Reverse Engineering. Customer may not reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the SOFTWARE, nor attempt in any other manner to obtain the source code. No Separation of Components. The SOFTWARE is licensed as a single product. Its component parts may not be separated for use on more than one computer, nor otherwise used separately from the other parts. No Rental. Customer may not rent or lease the SOFTWARE to someone else." This is sad because I really like their chipsets and would love to use them but on those machines where video is important I don't feel I can because I simply can not think of any reasons for using closed source for mission critical applications. I *really* wish that Nvidia would open their drivers.

Re:We've been had! Look Harder!

[tjwhaynes]

The linked article is cobbled together review of the g450 for WINDOWS (I haven't looked at the GeForce side) with a cover page discussing Linux. You can see here the trail of where this story came from! The review features lovely snapshots of Windows drivers and it doesn't look like the reviewer has been near X.

Sorry - you are going to have to swallow your pride a little! Scroll down that page to the base where it has a link to XFree86 background and you will find the rest of the review. Just because there are links to two Windows reviews of the two cards doesn't mean that that is all! :-)

Cheers,

Toby Haynes