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The G450 dual-head card was the card to have for Linux in the early 2000s, imo.
by brandonmenc 8y ago
The G450 dual-head card was the card to have for Linux in the early 2000s, imo.
- h2odragon 8y agoMatrox cards were awesome. With the right Trinitron monitor you could have 2048x1536 resolution @85Hz refresh rate. there would be no jitter or color irregularites to worry about. just pixels displayed as specified, no fuss, no muss. If you could source the adapter cables and play with modelines deeper, a Matrox card could drive nearly any CRT you cared to hook up.
- tamentis 8y agoI remember having to compile drivers to get a /dev/mga device file that would be used to play videos with mplayer smoothly, which had a dedicated output option for mga at that time.
- jamiewildehk 8y agoI had a G450 hooked up to my big old CRT using mplayer to watch my terrible anime shows. Nothing could touch the quality of Matrox on a CRT.
- jefftk 8y agoI remember buying a Matrox dual-head used around 2003 and being incredibly excited putting it into a frankentower alongside the integrated graphics and an old VGA card, giving me two "high resolution" monitors and two peripheral ones: https://www.jefftk.com/college-multihead-linux.jpg https://www.jefftk.com/college-multihead-linux.jpg The card wasn't well supported by Gentoo, and every time I rebuilt the kernel, which was surprisingly often, there was an awkward manual step involving copying over something for the HAL. EDIT: found the docs -- https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-60278-start-0.html https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-60278-start-0.html