Richard Spencer wrote:
>
> I'm considering buying a flat-panel LCD monitor, and am interested in
> finding out a card that will support such a digital display. In fact, I
> don't know where to look to find a card with digital support built-in.
>
> For example, I noticed the Matrox Millenium G200 is supported by
> the XF86_SVGA server, but according to the Matrox site, the G200 will
> only support digital displays with an optional card, which may or
> may not work with the X server.
>
> Does anyone have any knowledge and/or experience with this stuff? I
> suppose I need to know as much
> --
I have successfully installed a Princeton Graphics DPP500 flat panel on
a friend's box. All I did to make it work is documented at
http://marc.mutz.com/X/. You need a patched X server and it only works
with 1024x768 pixels and a ATI LT Pro chipset. This not such a bad
imitation, though, as most 15" DFP panels already come with such a card.
However, Matrox and ALI have released new versions of their resp.
chipsets and I'm quite sure it will not work for them. Maybe you have to
wait for XFree4.0 or look at snapshots of it. There is a good chance the
DFP/P&D ports will be supported, because both companies (esp. ATI)
commited themselves to support Linux.
Marc
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Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://marc.mutz.com/Encryption-HOWTO/
University of Bielefeld, Dep. of Mathematics / Dep. of Physics
PGP-keyID's: 0xd46ce9ab (RSA), 0x7ae55b9e (DSS/DH)
