Matrox Releases G series X config tool

Deven Phillips writes: "Matrox has released a GUI based configuration tool for Matrox cards. It has the ability to set up Dual-Head, TV out, and Digital Flat Panel configurations. It also configures all of the resolution modes for XFree86 4.0.[2|3]. I have tried it, and it works with or without the Matrox supplied drivers, but you can't switch on the fly with the XFree drivers."

Comments

Re:X replacement

[HeUnique]

And why replace it exactly?

Do you have any other enviroment which supports compatibility with X? stuff like Xlib, DGA(1,2), Xv, DRI, GLX (for Nvidia), the new Renderer and RandR perhaps? what about transparent network so you can see your apps in some other place? no, ha?

Yes, if you do remember XFree 3.3.x it was very sucky sucky shitty shitty - but since then - XFree 4.x came out, you can see all the extensions I mentioned above came mostly when XFree 4.x came out.

It's constantly being developed. Geniuses people like Mark Vojkovich and Keith Packard, as many other people are helping X to keep being develop to any modern graphical enviroment.

So no, I don't think Frame buffer, nor Berlin project could make it and replace X. I still belive that X is coming into maturity and it will give you in short time what others giving today (look at the latest Rendered and RandR extensions lately and see what I mean)

Re:Closed Source...

[HeUnique]

Yes, some of the stuff on the drivers are closed source - but only the part which gives you dual head, and the TV out stuff, and the Macrovision part is closed also..

They cannot release the source code since most of those parts are either belong to 3rd party, or NDA signature prevents from showing the code (E.G - Macrovision)...

You'll have to decide what you want - either some close parts of the driver and 95% opened under GPL - or totally not support?

I'll go with choise 1

Re:Resolution GAAAHH! (short rant)

[Adnans]

The RandR extension, which just made it into XFRee86 CVS will allow for just that. However applications must be modified slightly to take advantage of the Resize and Rotate extension. Actually they only need to respond to the X event that notifies the app that the root window has changed size (and possibly color depth). This shouldn't be too hard for well written apps. And chances are good that once support for this makes it into populair toolkits, applications written against them will get support for free (think RENDER). Don't expect widespread support untill XFree 4.1+ makes it into distro's though...

-adnans