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Re: Xfree86 and a Matrox G550



On 21 Nov 2003, James Hosken wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Has any one had experience of installing Debian with a Matrox G550 Graphics
> Card?
> I've just installed Woody and XFree86 will not work.
> 
> I've found some drivers at matrox.com,
> http://matrox.com/mga/support/drivers/latest/home.cfm
> They say that you need the kernel 2.4, so I upgraded to that OK.
> But when I run the matrox driver install script it say it can't find X (sorry I
> don't have the full error message)
> 
> On the XFree website it says that the G550 is supported under 4.3.0
> http://the.earth.li/XFree86/current/Status18.html#18
> 
> I'm new to Debian and I really don't know what to do from here.
> Please can any one help?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> James

I have one of these cards and it is working perfectly with the 4.2.x
series of X. As Christian Schnobrich says, you don't need the Matrox
proprietary drivers for routine operation and in fact one of them does
something funny with the mouse pointer so you're better off with the
driver included with X.  Your /etc/X11/XF86Config file should contain
the following:

 Section "Device"
	Identifier	"Matrox G550"
	Driver		"mga"

I found I had to comment out 'Load "glx" in the Modules section,
otherwise X wouldn't run. I tried to get this working without success,
but I didn't bother much because I don't play games.

Anthony

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