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Nearly 936936487 seconds after the Epoch, Erik de Castro Lopo <erikd@zip.com.au> wrote:
> 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.
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> > 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).
> > 
> > Matrox G400? ATI Rage 128? nVidia RIVA TNT2? Others???
> > 
> > Please post in this ng or email.
> > Thanks for your time & help
> 
> I don't have any experience with the Matrox Millenium II but it is
> supposed
> to be one of the well supported cards. Your problems sound like you
> might be 
> having a problem with library incompatibilities or flakey hardware.
> 
> I'm currently running a Matrox G400 and it works well although you do
> need
> to use Xfree86 version 3.3.4 or later. I'm using 3.3.5.
> 
> Erik
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> +-------------------------------------------------+
>      Erik de Castro Lopo     erikd@zip.com.au
> +-------------------------------------------------+
> Microsoft : Yesterday's software running on today's
> hardware tomorrow.

I am using a Matrox Millenium 2 AGP card, running at true color mode at 1024x768 with a NEC Multisynch monitor with no problems here.  I believe that this card is quite well supported under LInux over all.  The part about rebooting would lead me to question the overall stability of your entire Linux installation. I have seen LInux spontaneously reboot only under a few circumstances.

I run the stock RedHat 6 Xfree86 on my desktop.  All works quite well here!

Mike