Mike Hicks wrote: >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). > Of course, what we *really* need is *triple*-head video; two OpenGL monitors don't help a whit with gaming, when there's that huge blind spot right down the center of the 'screen'! :p