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Re: Upgrading XFree86



On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 05:48, Brian C wrote:
> on a lot of the packages that I thought would adequately upgrade me to 
> Xfree86, but I'm getting the impression that I have to recompile the 
> kernel to include the mga module or something from the error message I'm 
> getting when X won't start. So two questions, 1) Anyone installed a 
> Matrox 550 card under Debian? What'd you do? and 2) What are all the 
> packages I would need to upgrade to have all the X stuff at the testing 
> level? Thanks for any help.

I came across some XFree 4.3 packages and used them for some time 
without the slightest problems.

# XFree86 4.3.0 backport for Woody by Daniel Stone 
deb http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/xfree86/$(ARCH)/ ./

I did not check whether these repositories are still online, if not
maybe this query might be of some use:

http://www.google.com/search?q=xfree%204.3%20backport%20woody

The following package might also be pretty interesting in your case:

"""
Package: mga-vid-source

Description: Kernel driver for the back-end scaler on Matrox cards
(source)
 The mga_vid module will enable you to use the back-end scaler found on
 many Matrox cards. If you own a Matrox card, and use your Debian system
 to watch movies with 'mplayer', which you'll find at
http://mplayerhq.hu ,
 you definitely want this piece of software, as it is the best video
 output driver available.
 .
 This package just contain the sources needed to build the kernel
module.
 To actually use it, you'll have to compile it to match your installed
 kernel. Refer to /usr/share/doc/mga-vid-source/README.Debian for
 information on how to do this.

"""

hth,


sebas
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