On Monday 16 July 2007, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2007/07/16 22:36, Matthieu Herrb wrote: > > You may try the Matrox G550 PCIe. They are PCIe x1, not x16, but it > > should fulfill all your other constraints. > > Matrox G-series are really great cards for 2D (and the PCI ones are > available very cheaply) but I've always had trouble getting DVI > output working under X with them, do you happen to know if DVI (or > dualhead) still need the binary module these days?
Yes, it's possible without the blob. I've got dual head (both stand-alone and Xinerama) working with both G450 and G550 matrox cards (AGP/PCI not PCIe) using the default X driver (mga) on 4.1. This is over Dsub-15 outputs rather than DVI. Though the G550 supports DVI, I have no DVI monitors to test with it. Resolution on each of the two monitors is [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can push a single monitor up to 1920x1200 but you lose the second monitor (dual head) due to card limitations. For 2D graphics/layout work or countless hours of reading text, nothing works better than Matrox. JCR
