Re: Xorg not working with Matrox G550?? MGAGetBOARDHANDLESize

[Bill Moseley <moseley@hank.org>]

On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 08:55:58AM +0200, Simo Kauppi wrote:
> Did you try to use both the mga_drv and the hal library from Matrox?
> The latest version is 4.3 and they seem to run with X.Org 6.9.

The 4.3 driver I have from Matrox does not work with 6.9:

 matrox_driver-x86-4.3.0/install.sh:

function GetXVersion
{
    XVERSION=`X -version 2>&1 | grep -s "XFree86 Version" | cut -d" " -f3 | sed -e "s/\([^\.]*\.[^\.]*\.[^\.]*\)\.[^\.]*/\1/"`

    [...]

        elif [ "$XVERSION" == "6.8.2.0" ]; then
            XPRESENT=1
            XVERSION="6.8.2"
        else
            echo -e "$RED\033[1mERROR\033[0m: \033[1mThe X server drivers included in this installation package"
            echo -e "       do not support the current version of your X server.\033[0m"
            echo ""
            exit 1
        fi

If it's 6.9 then the install script dies.


> > By the way, how do I get auth to remotely try and start the xserver?
> > My main display is dead in the water so I'm debugging this via ssh.
> 
> moseley@bumby:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/xdm stop
> moseley@bumby:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/xdm start

No, I'm not asking how to restart xdm.  (I'm not using xdm, I'm just
running startx.)  I was asking how I could do:

    laptop: $ ssh desktop
    desktop: $ DISPLAY=0.0 startx -- +xinerama

so startx on the desktop's server server over ssh.  When I was using
the desktop directly running startx was not working, but also leaving
the display in an un-usable state (didn't got back to text mode).  If
I could startx over ssh then I could use a separate machine to debug
and try restarting the server without having to reboot.



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Bill Moseley
moseley@hank.org