On Thu, 24 May 2001, Andrej Borsenkow wrote:
>
> >
> > > Hi all! :o)
> > > I have to choose between a Matrox G450 DH and a NVidia
> > Geforce-2 to install
> > > on my computer with a DVD player. What would you suggest to buy?!?
> > > Many thanks,
> >
> > Matrox has open source drivers, nVidia are partly binary only (=>
> > trouble).
>
> Why? I bet manufacturer knows hardware internals better than open source
> developers. Most "open source" drivers are just reverse engineered windows
> ones.
>
> > Matrox also has very nice framebuffer drivers while the rivafb module
> > is marked as experimental (have not tried it though).
> >
>
> I use framebuffer with GF2MX for a long time without any problems.
>
> That said, I do not know :-) I dual-boot between windows and linux, and my
> son plays many games on windows, and Matrox is known to have massive problem
> with 3D. That is one reason to prefer nVidia.
But if you don't play games, dualhead and very nice 2D is something Matrox
got.
seb
