Re: Matrox G200 and X

[Dpk <dpk@egr.msu.edu>]

On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, Lawrence Walton wrote:

   I have a faily vanilla slink box in front of me with a g200.
   Performance seems pretty good, to get it to work I used a .deb from
   http://master.debian.org/~vincent/xfree-3.3.3.1/xserver-svga_3.3.3.1-0_=

Using this single debian package worked, oddly enough!  (1024x768 @ 32
bpp looks fine) Is there much difference between the pre-compiled
binary from Xfree86 and the Debian package?

Anyway, thanks!
Dennis
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Dennis Kelly <dpk@egr.msu.edu>
Network Adminstrator
College of Engineering, MSU
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On Fri, Apr 23, 1999 at 10:05:21AM -0400, Dpk wrote:

   I have downloaded the latest SVGA driver from Xfree86 [1] for my
   new video card - a Matrox G200.  However, I am getting poor
   performance, like 320x200x256.  I have used both XF86Setup and
   xf86config without success.  I have had no problems with Diamond
   and Matrox cards in the past, but this is my first AGP... I don't
   believe that makes a difference though. (let me know otherwise!)
   
   I did notice my Video and Network cards share the same IRQ,
   9... Would this affect it?  I have never been a PC hardware guru,
   but if this could be the problem, could someone give me a pointer,
   webpage, or HOWTO for resolving this?
   
   Thanks,
   Dennis
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   Dennis Kelly <dpk@egr.msu.edu>
   Network Adminstrator
   College of Engineering, MSU
   
   [1] 3.3.3.1, and I would have used the debian packages for 3.3.3 from
   ~vincent on master.debian.org, but I receive this error from apt-get:
     [snip]
     Fetched 1607kb in 8s (197kb/s)
     E: Size mismatch for package xlib6g