[Chromium-users] Anyone using Matrox Millenium G400/450 w/ Chromium, get updated drivers

[Zawisza, J. <Jim...@co...>]

I've been running Chromium on a Windows 2000 cluster and running the
SPECViewperf benchmark suite under Chromium.  The machines all have
Matrox Millenium G400 or G450 cards in them.  In the course of trying to
get all of this to work, I ran into two major problems.  The first
involved the MedMCAD data set: whenever I ran it, certain tests would
crash with an error about reading memory location 0x000000 in
g400icd.dll (one of the Matrox driver DLLs).  The second involved the DX
and ProCDRS data sets, and was more mysterious: certain tests would fail
to write frames per second information to the logfile, making it
impossible to get useful information from these tests.  We were using
version 5.52.010 of the Matrox video drivers, and since the MedMCAD
error looked like a driver conflict, I upgraded to the latest version of
the drivers (5.72.021 as of the time of this writing).  Not only did
this fix the MedMCAD problem, but it also fixed the DX and ProCDRS
problems, which surprised me.

Bottom line, don't use version 5.52.010 of the Matrox Millenium
G400/G450 drivers under Windows 2000, as they're apparently buggy.  I'm
not sure if the bugs have anything to do with the interaction between
Chromium and the drivers or if the driver is just buggy, but avoid this
version of the driver in any case.

Jim Zawisza
Jim...@co...