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Hi. I'm close to purchasing a Gateway P5-200 with their OEM Matrox MGA
WRAM card (4 Mb).  Although a Matrox driver is now being written for
XFree86, I don't know when it will be available or if it will also
support this "Gatrox" OEM version of the Millenium.  The commercial
Metrolink Xserver which comes with the RedHat distribution does support
the Millenium, but the Metrolink folks have never tested it with the
"Gatrox" version.  

So, is anyone out there running Xwindows on their Gateway with their OEM
Matrox WRAM card??  Which Xserver have you found to work?

Any information would be much appreciated.

Thanks,
Toby Falk

Just a side note, the OEM MGA does not have the 220 RAMDAC chips (as
far as I know).  You way want to verify this with Gateway.  More of a
FYI, as I am preparing to purchase a system and found that out.

G

: Hi. I'm close to purchasing a Gateway P5-200 with their OEM Matrox MGA
: WRAM card (4 Mb).  Although a Matrox driver is now being written for
: XFree86, I don't know when it will be available or if it will also
: support this "Gatrox" OEM version of the Millenium.  The commercial
: Metrolink Xserver which comes with the RedHat distribution does support
: the Millenium, but the Metrolink folks have never tested it with the
: "Gatrox" version.  

: So, is anyone out there running Xwindows on their Gateway with their OEM
: Matrox WRAM card??  Which Xserver have you found to work?

: Any information would be much appreciated.

Don't buy an OEM version!!! It has a slow 135MHz RAMDAC.
The retail version has a 220MHz RAMDAC.

Accelerated-X from X-Inside (http://www.xinside.com/) works great.
Metro-X from MetroLink (http://www.metrolink.com/) is slower, and
was still BETA last time I looked.

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