it's been a long time since my last post, but let me assure You, that's because of the good work Alexander put up.
So my reason for being back alive is, of course, Xorg 7.4. I dist-upgrade'ed my box without taking a closer look and a new X i got. Since my desktop-/wm-envirement was also upgraded it took me a while to gather all pieces together to draw the correct conclusions

I send a couple of more mails to Matrox, demanding new drivers, but I would like to ask You about the mean time:
Are there flags to be given to X to make it play niecer with this P650? I ('til this moment) miss at most the possibility to bring a Digital TV stream from a TV-card PVR350 from Hauppauge to fullscreen on my primary monitor, so if You (or you

I am already: Alexander, You have been a great source of info and drivers for my compunting expirience!! I still hold up these dual-head Matrox cards high, very good analog signal quality and the P650 fanless DualDVI in a professional package. But they would have gone into the bin a long time ago if it wasn't for Your drivers. So, thank You once more.
Greetings to You poor fellow Matrox users, Matrox is the new SGI, so we are indeed a weird crowd

Martin
Riding with VESA from Xorg 7.4 with 2.6.29 - Debian GNU/Linux in the Sidux Package (http://www.sidux.org)
Matrox P650 AGP on i865G w. P4@2.8Ghz)