Re: matrox g450: matrox.com drivers or X 4.1.0 drivers?
On Monday 24 September 2001 5:57 pm, Oleksandr Moskalenko wrote:
> * 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.
>
Hello,
I can confirm that the G450 works with DRI enabled with just the Debian X
4.1. I still get the error that mga_hal isn't loaded but that doesn't stop
DRI from working.
LeeE
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