On Wednesday 16 January 2002 02:28 am, you wrote:
> Yeah... Actually, I've found that their cards are some of the best
> supported, though a lot of it has just been rolled in (they used to be some
> real buttheads about specs, and they still have the problem of WAY too many
> minor insignificant chip revisions).
>
> The reason we see a lot of ATI beefs are that MGA cards are pretty rare,
> 3dfx is mostly dead, and many distros configure nVidia cards to use the
> binary drivers automagically, but most don't do a very good job of setting
> up DRI and the like on r128/radeon cards, which are quite common (almost as
> common as nVidia).

I assume by MGA cards you mean Matrox. I  recently had (as of two months ago) 
been using an old Millennium with 2MB of RAM. Worked perfectly under Linux.
So they decided the corporate business was their bread and butter (for now, 
anyways) If they would have had a decent high performance card, I would have 
probably bought it. 

Lloyd Osten
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