On 28 May 2000, Marcus Sundberg wrote:
> Andreas Beck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > > resolution. You could also support truly ancient hardware and support
> > > 320x200 or 240, but then KGI drivers such as the ones for Matrox cards
> > > don't even work at that resolution last I used them. =p
> >
> > Yes. This is because they only work with the card in VGA emulation, which
> > would mean taking the card out of its native memory-mapped mode, thus
> > destroying multihead and friends.
>
> Which for Matrox cards is a blatant lie, which I have suspected ever
> since first browsing the docs. matroxfb works perfectly in 320x200,
> 320x240 and 400x300, _with_ acceleration and multihead, on both
> Millennium II and G400.
>
> The KGIcon matrox driver was originally written for Millennium I
> though, which *may* have had this restriction.
Ah... that's really good to know. I have a Matrox Millenium II PCI... :-)
So the KGIcon matrox driver have to be rewritten to support multihead and
acceleration with this low resolutions?
Christoph Egger
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