Re: matrox g450: matrox.com drivers or X 4.1.0 drivers?
* Krzys Majewski (majewski@cs.ubc.ca) wrote:
> Jason Boxman <jasonb@edseek.com> writes:
>
> > On Sunday 23 September 2001 02:28 pm, Krzys Majewski wrote:
> > > Anyone run a matrox g450?
> > > I've got one working with kernel 2.4.8 and X 4.1.0, but it did
> > > hang my box once. Maybe I should be using the drivers from the
> > > Matrox site instead? The Matrox drivers need the code for X
> > > 4.0.2/4.0.3 to compile. I know, I know, I should just try it and see,
> > > but it's a bit of a pain to build/test etc., so if you have any
> > > g450 experiences to share, please do..
> >
> > Well, my G400 works with the default X4.1 drivers. It seems to load the
> > mga_hal module that Matrox providers for G200/4xx cards though. The mga_hal
> > might only be necessary for the G450, I don't remember.
>
> OK, thanks.
> Mine tries to load the mga_hal module and fails, presumably because I
> haven't installed it. I take it you've downloaded the one from
> matrox.com? What does it do?
> Also, FWIW, if you don't install the matrox drivers, the 450 is only
> supported starting with X 4.1.0.
>
> -chris
On my G400 mga_hal prevents dri from being enabled. I assume that's
because mga_hal was compiled for ╬4.0 and they haven't updated it for
4.1, yet. Everything seems to work beautifully WITHOUT any Matrox
drivers even though mga_hal load failure message shows up in XFree86
log. Someone else posted similar experiences for their G450 on this list
before, too.
Alex.
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