A Video Card Upgrade HOWTO (Linux Journal)

Posted Aug 18, 2005 19:52 UTC (Thu) by cantsin (guest, #4420)
In reply to: A Video Card Upgrade HOWTO (Linux Journal) by dark
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Matrox has announced a PCI Express version of the Millennium G550 (chiefly a no-nonsense 2D-centric card with two DVI connectors and passive cooling) for September that allegedly will include free/open source Linux drivers.

But I have no information whether those drivers will cover all relevant subsystems (kernel framebuffer and DRI, XFree86/X.org including multihead support and accelerated OpenGL/3D), whether they will be released under matching GPL and the X11 licenses, how difficult it will be to make those drivers work with current kernels and X servers, and when - if at all - those drivers will end up in the upstream kernel and Xorg distributions.

If someone should know more about this than me, it would be greatly helpful if s/he could share the information here.