[KLUG Members] Re: RH7.2 X problem

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Thu, 2002-02-28 at 13:11, Rusty Yonkers wrote:
> The Matrox sounds like it will be a little easier to
> install and better up front support.

Yes, they've ported over their GUI "PowerDesk" tools over.

> Nvidia has native drivers that they are shipping now but
> when I looked at the 20 some page docs for getting the
> driver working, I thought "wow this looks hard". 

It's actually _very_easy_ (rarely more than 3 steps).  Most of the docs
are for advanced customization (AGP mode, dual-head, FSAA, etc...).

nVidia's drivers are much faster at OpenGL/GLX than Matrox.  The drivers
themselves share the same, "unified" codebase with their Windows
releases (hence why they aren't GPL).

-- Bryan

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