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What Video card(s)/drivers support DGA 2 correctly?

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Tony Smolar

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Mar 16, 2001, 1:36:35 PM3/16/01
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So G450 will work with accellerated calls, apart from the bug you mentioned?  Correct?
 

Petr Vandrovec wrote:

Jim Bennett wrote:
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> I'm using a Matrox G400, and it supports the
> accelerated DGA 2 calls that VMware uses.
> >
> > Matrox G400/G450?
> > ATI drivers don't fully support DGA 2, right?
> > nVidia?
> > 3dfx?

Matrox driver ignores 'Option "UseFBDev"' for DGA modes. Otherwise it
looks OK. If you do not have G450, it will work for you.

There is problem that Xserver 4.0.2 with mga driver from matrox (which
supports G450) dies after you exit VMware :-( And G400 are not available
anymore.
                                                        Petr

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Tony Smolar

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Mar 15, 2001, 1:45:36 PM3/15/01
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Hi, I am looking for a new video card.

One frequent discussion here is that VMware has no problem with XF 4.0x, but not all 4.0x drivers fully support the DGA 2 standard.   I never see it mentioned which cards do.

Matrox G400/G450?
ATI drivers don't fully support DGA 2, right?
nVidia?
3dfx?

I'm leaning towards Matrox, but before I buy it, I want to be sure that I'll be able to use VMware in full screen accelerated mode with it.

Thanks. 

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Jim Bennett

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Mar 15, 2001, 2:09:01 PM3/15/01
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I'm using a Matrox G400, and it supports the
accelerated DGA 2 calls that VMware uses.

Jim

Petr Vandrovec

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Mar 15, 2001, 2:44:32 PM3/15/01
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Jim Bennett wrote:
>
> I'm using a Matrox G400, and it supports the
> accelerated DGA 2 calls that VMware uses.
> >
> > Matrox G400/G450?
> > ATI drivers don't fully support DGA 2, right?
> > nVidia?
> > 3dfx?

Matrox driver ignores 'Option "UseFBDev"' for DGA modes. Otherwise it

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