It's been mentioned before and the answer was that Matrox 450 Dual Head support module from matrox won't go in...... the reason was that binary only modules aren't permitted, or it's the licensing issue...... something like that. Abel Cheung On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Anthony Moulen wrote: > Will there be a provision or support for the Matrox 450 Dual Head AGP > card? If Mandrake isn't going to include the driver (which is fine with > me) will they at least do something with the installer to detect the card > and advertise (like for the winmodems) that you may need to get a special > driver for the card from Matrox? I have a Matrox 450 card in my computer > and know several others who also have this cad. I had the luck have > actually originally having a Voodoo3 card so I did the research first on > what things needed to change to support the Matrox card before it went > into my computer. > > Migrating to 8.0 is going to be painful though if I can't boot my computer > properly right away but have to play around with it to get the file from > Matrox and install it. It would be nice if the installer actually allowed > me to get the file during the install, but this may be asking too much. > THe problem with not supporting a video card though is far more serious > than not supporting winmodems. And given what happens to my display right > now without support, it just isn't going to work for a lot of users.
