Subject: Re: ATI XPERT 2000 & XFree86
To: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
From: Jukka Marin <jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/27/2000 22:10:26
On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 02:44:21PM -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> > >My Matrox G200 died last monday and I sent a list of 'approved'
> > >video cards from the XFree86 site. Unfortunately, purchasing ignored
> > >the list and purchased an ATI XPERT 2000 instead, which appears to
> > >have the dreaded 'text corruption problem':
> 
> Matrox can probably send you a utility which will re-flash the BIOS
> and fix your G200.

What's the story about the G200's - mine died, too, but I got a new one
(the dead one was less than 12 months old).  Some kind of a manufacturing
problem or just bad quality?

  -jm