From: Ketil Froyn <ketilf@ifi.uio.no>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 11:49:10 +0200 (MET DST)

Re: 2 questions

On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Marcus Sundberg wrote:

> > AFAIK yes. DOn't know how far it reaches with respect to more complex
> > functions, but simple 2D is AFAIK supported.
> Lines, boxes and screen2screen blits are accelerated.

Is that a lot? I mean, is that like 3 of 4 or 3 of 50 accelerated
functions? :)

> > AFAIK Matrox is pretty well supported for Multihead. Marcus can probably
> > tell more.
> I have a Millennium II which works fine multiheaded with the kgicon
> driver. Several people have however reported problems with Millennium I
> cards so there might be some bugs only showing up there.
> Also note that the kgicon driver only handles one Matrox Millennium
> card - other card(s) must be of other type. For multihead with several
> Millennium cards you have to use matroxfb (which is unaccelerated).

My plan was mainly to run 1 MGA Millenium and one card with something
else. But I can also get a hold of another Millenium. Can I not run even
one of them accelerated? (I don't know a great deal about this). And how
difficult is it to make matroxfb accelerater?

Ketil Froyn
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