I hope this driver proves stable, as I would hate to give up the speed it allows. For 2D, the G200 is a cheap and capable card, but the driver with XF4.0 was so slooow. Waiting 15 seconds for the stipling to fill in when exiting from Sawfish @1600x1200 was getting on my nerves. Now it takes less than 1/2 sec.
Actually the FreeBSD installation does support CDRom drives. Ever since 2.05 or so (that is the earliest version I have used). The CDRom support in the low 2.x kernels was sometimes tempermental but nonetheless functional.
Perhaps you should read up on just who is working on getting Linux ported to IA64. The group is called the Trillian Project and includes Intel themselves (along with most every other technically inclined company).
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I just put a MII into my PC today and have been pleasantly surprised by how well it works now. I am using 3.3.5 and running at 1600x1200x16. Perfect. The snow problem seems to have been solved.
Well it just seems logical to support companies that in turn support the platform that I want to run. (read Linux). You know, 'you scratch my back and I will scratch yours'.
Not supporting OSS, and in fact being very antagonistic towards it in general, will not help the Linux comunity in anyway. XiG is just such a company.
Hmm it's not so much what they say, it's how they say it. They have a very condescending attitude towards open source development.
You have to remember, it you are buying a closed source app then you are voting with your dollars. I say either wait for Xfree 4.0 or vote for something from a more supportive and OSS friendly company (like Precission Insight or Metro X).
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I hope this driver proves stable, as I would hate to give up the speed it allows. For 2D, the G200 is a cheap and capable card, but the driver with XF4.0 was so slooow. Waiting 15 seconds for the stipling to fill in when exiting from Sawfish @1600x1200 was getting on my nerves. Now it takes less than 1/2 sec.
Way to go Matrox!
Actually the FreeBSD installation does support CDRom drives. Ever since 2.05 or so (that is the earliest version I have used). The CDRom support in the low 2.x kernels was sometimes tempermental but nonetheless functional.
Perhaps you should read up on just who is working on getting Linux ported to IA64. The group is called the Trillian Project and includes Intel themselves (along with most every other technically inclined company).
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Please See: http://slashdot.org/articles/99/08/10/1938241.sht
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I just put a MII into my PC today and have been pleasantly surprised by how well it works now. I am using 3.3.5 and running at 1600x1200x16. Perfect. The snow problem seems to have been solved.
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Well it just seems logical to support companies that in turn support the platform that I want to run. (read Linux). You know, 'you scratch my back and I will scratch yours'.
Not supporting OSS, and in fact being very antagonistic towards it in general, will not help the Linux comunity in anyway. XiG is just such a company.
Prime.
Hmm it's not so much what they say, it's how they say it. They have a very condescending attitude towards open source development.
You have to remember, it you are buying a closed source app then you are voting with your dollars. I say either wait for Xfree 4.0 or vote for something from a more supportive and OSS friendly company (like Precission Insight or Metro X).