Suggestions for a good graphics card for RH9/Fedora?

Peter Boy pboy at barkhof.uni-bremen.de
Fri Oct 24 07:46:52 UTC 2003


Am Fr, den 24.10.2003 schrieb Mike A. Harris um 08:07:
> >And there are some minor / odd issues with the dual head /
> >xinerama configuration. Edge resistance and the mechanism to
> >open a new window on one screen instead overlapping both screens
> >(just don't remenber the vocabulary) doesn't work. But otherwise
> >it's fine :-)
> 
> Those are window manager issues and are unrelated to what video 
> driver you're using.  The video driver has no concept of what a 
> window manager is, edge resistance or anything like that.  That's 
> all window manager stuff.

I had a discussion with Havoc some months ago. He told me that there are
some bugs in the driver so that the windows manager can't figure out (or
it's very hard to figure out) how to do edge resistance and all that
xinerama stuff (esp. Matrox 400/450, slightly better with 550).


Peter









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