RE: Matrox Xserver on Debian
On 23-Dec-98 Sean M Hollingsworth wrote:
> I am (hopefully) putting a Matrox Millennium G200 AGP in my linux box
> next month. I know that S.u.S.E has an Xserver for this card, but I can
> only find tarballs and RPMs for it. I now have two questions:
>
> 1) Is there a deb of the Matrox Xserver?
>
> 2) In the event I can't find a deb, would installing the xserver from a
> tarball or an RPM cause any problems with compatibility? Say with
> updates, other libs, etc...
>
SuSE just gives you a server, nothing else, simply place their binary with the
other xservers (like vga16) and add a line to your /etc/Xserver for it. No big
deal. Once we have a 3.3.3 package you wont need the SuSE supplied server.
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