Re: G550 and 3D acceleration
Hmmm, alright, here's what it looks like to me . . .
What you are seeing with the framebuffer stuff is for the console.
That's what allows your console to print its text. When you load X it
is not loading the modules or it can't find them.
To find out whether there is support in the kernel, you really need to
install the source and take a look at it. In my 2.4.22 kernel source,
I find Matrox G400 drivers that claim to also work with the G450. I
am not sure if they will also work with your G550, but perhaps it
will. In order to use them, if the kernel image you are using right
now does not offer a module of it, or it is not compiled in [most
likely not]; the best thing I can recomend to you is to try those
modules and compile the drivers as modules with your new kernel. I
don't know if you have compiled kernels or not before, but it isn't
too bad.
If that doesn't work, http://www.matrox.com has a listing of 3rd party
driver providers, and there are some commercial drivers available from
XIG [I think the URI is http://www.xig.com] but they should offer free
evaluation copies. There are other sites offering drivers, so I would
check out the matrox site and see what you can find there as well if
recompiling the kernel with matrox drivers does not help.
I hope this helps,
Aaron Hsu
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