Re: Matrox G550 32MB under Woody
Hi,
Thanks for the tip! I'll try it asap! :)
Pontus
----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Faller" <Daniel.Faller@physik.uni-freiburg.de>
To: "Pontus Edvardsson" <pontus.edvardsson@bredband.net>
Cc: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 8:24 AM
Subject: Re: Matrox G550 32MB under Woody
> On Thursday 27 December 2001 15:53, Janine Roe wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I just bought myself a Matrox G550 (as G400 & G450 no longer seems to
> > > be available). It has Linux support ofcourse, but I cannot seem to
> > > make X work in any higher resolutions than VGA (640x480) and SVGA
> > > (320x200)!!? XFree86 (tried stable, testing and unstable as well)
> > > complains about missing chipset entries and such... When specifying
> > > anything more than 8-bit color depth, it tells me the chipset does not
> > > support this resolution. Obviosly it does not recognize the card
> > > correctly, wondering how most people got it working? I'm getting all
> > > sorts of errors and are at present really confused, so please tell me
> > > the steps nessesary to make it work. For the moment I have windows
> > > installed, but are keen on getting Debian installed correctly, as I
> > > like it much better.
> I have the same card here, runnig sid (xserver-xfree86 4.1.0-11). The
Matrox
> G550 works without any problems. The only thing I had to do was to
download
> the the mga & mga_hal drivers from the matrox web site, and put them into
> /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/.
>
>
> Daniel
>
>
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