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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