Brian <lxy at cloudnet.com> wrote:
> 
> Ok, back on topic, I haven't heard a single bad thing about the G400,
> and only that there was a compatibility issue under X with the G450. 
> I'm curious about this because I want dual head capability on my system
> and I'm planning on a Matrox.

Well, the only thing you can really say bad about the G400 is that it
isn't the G450.  There are some missing features on the G400's second
head, such as gamma correction and DPMS (monitor sleep), and it can't
power a monitor past 1280x1024.

The G400 works with stock XFree86, though you need to get Matrox's driver
to run dual-head (it comes with some microcode that gets uploaded to the
video card).  The G450 needs Matrox's driver no matter what (though it's
hard to say if future versions of XFree86 will include support or not).

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