Re: X, Matrox G450 and Matrox-Driver
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 12:41:13AM +0200, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> now I'm trying to get a Matrox Millenium G450 up and running under X
> (4.0.3). So far I have a more or less working solution with the
> framebuffer device, but it's far from being satisfactory.
>
> When trying the mga driver, X complains:
> (WW) Warning, couldn't open module mga_hal
> (EE) MGA: Failed to load module "mga_hal"(module does not exist, 0)
> (EE) MGA(0): G450 support not available without Matrox HAL module
> and stops working.
>
> I got two drivers at the Matrox website, mga_hal_drv.o and
> mga_drv.o. Both won't load with my kernel version (2.4.4) because of
> 'unresolved symbols' in the driver files. The instructions at the
> website didn't mention which kernel they used.
These aren't kernel modules, but X modules, should be putted in
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers...
then they should work great, at least they do for me
>
> Matrox has a source distribution for the drivers, too, but this
> requires compiling X from the sources with the driver source copied
> in, so that is not a very pleasant alternative.
>
> Has someone a solution or compiled the driver and is willing to share
> the binary?
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