Re: Matrox G550 32mb under woody
Thanks!
Your suggestion to look into CVS sounds very interesting! And the other
alternatives too for that matter! I suddenly feel a bit less lost... :) I'll
get on with it right away!
Many thanks,
Pontus
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Perry" <mperry@lnxpowered.org>
To: "Pontus Edvardsson" <pontus.edvardsson@bredband.net>
Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 9:30 PM
Subject: Re: Matrox G550 32mb under woody
> Hi-
>
> The X.con file has a clue. If you are running X4.1, the card is not
> supported as of yet. The last line says that:
>
>
> Fatal server error:
>
> XFree86 has found a valid card configuration.
> Unfortunately the appropriate data has not been added to xf86PciInfo.h.
> Please forward 'scanpci -v' output to XFree86 support team.
>
> This means from what I have seen that the card is not found in the card
> database for X4.1. Remember that X4.1 was released in June of this year
> and that numerous updates have been added since then but we are still
> waiting for a new release of X which should be called X4.2. It is very
> possible that the CVS sources of X would support this video card. I
> have downloaded the compiled X from CVS sources several dozen times and
> it takes awhile to complete but you end up with X running to support the
> card (if the driver developer has populated the CVS head tree with the
> new sources). SEcondarily, Matrox may have released a gpl'ed driver
> after the release of X4.1 and its sitting within CVS or on their
> website. I think Matrox is cooperating with the X developers so I bet
> there is a driver for that card in the CVS version of X. YOu could also
> take a look at the xprt mailing list off of xfree86.org for any others
> that have used this card and what they did.
>
> As a final alternative, you may want to look see if ACcelerated X
> (commercial X server) supports the card. Another possibility is that
> redhat has lifted the CVS sources and produced new rpms as part of
> redhat 7.2 which supports other cards like the ATI Mobility LY M6 cards
> which ATI added after the release date of X4.1.
>
>
>
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