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mperry@tsoft.com (Michael Perry) writes:

> Robert Kompier wrote:
> 
> My video card is a 8Mb Matrox Millenium II.
> My monitor is a Viewsonic 17PS.
> 
> I'm having major problems with Linux, and as far as I can determine, all
> due to the video card. A number of times Linux decided to reboot the
> computer whilst I was making 'cosmetic' changes to Linux.

I doubt that it's your video card, at least that it is the brand. 
I've been using Millenium-II w/ 8M for about 2 years now and no problem 
whatsoever. I know others using it without a glitch. That card has been
supported for years, driver bugs that cause the machine to crash are
rather unlikely to pop up.

> This morning I tried to get a 'snapshot' in The Gimp and straight away
> the machine rebooted. After starting up Linux again I noticed that, once
> again, the right-hand side of the login dialogue box (with the
> 'shutdown' button) was missing!
> This has happened a number of times.

You may have some broken HW ?

> So, I was wondering if people could tell me what, in their opinion, is
> the best card for Linux (and at the same time Windoze of course).

I don't know about Windows really but under Linux a Millenium is quite 
a good card if you do not need 3D acceleration.

Regards,

Zoltan


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