Re: Matrox G-450 Under X Vers. 3.3.6
There is basically no point not running Xf4 with a card like that. You will get no 3d acceleration, and matrox doesnt officially support Xf3 anymore. I suggest you just run woody. You will also want to run a 2.4 kernel to get dri/drm working well.
On 14-Nov-2001, Rafe B. wrote:
>
> I'm using potato 2.2r3 (or is that "2.2.18pre21"). Whatever.
>
> I recently switched to a Matrox G-450 AGP card. (Thanks
> to those who helped me "turn off X.")
>
> Question: can I expect that the X driver module for the
> Matrox G-400 will work? Has anyone tried this? (The
> G-450 isn't offered as a choice in 3.3.6.)
>
> My attempts to get X running so far (XF86Setup) have all
> resulted in failure (server can't connect, etc.) using
> the Matrox G-450, with the G-400 selected as the board. I've
> tried several different timings and resolutions. The
> monitor should't be an issue; it's a multisync machine
> with huge amounts of bandwidth and is generally used
> (on other OSs) at 1600 x 1200 @ 76 Hz.
>
> Related question: Does it make any sense to try grafting
> X version 4.1 on top of this "potato" version, or should
> I just upgrade to "Woody?"
>
> What is the minimal kernel version to support the newest
> version of X?
>
> Hints, suggestions appreciated. I'd rather not do a major
> upgrade of debian quite yet, being rather a newbie.
>
>
> rafe b.
>
>
>
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