Bug#372067: xserver-xorg-video-mga: Please explicitly say in the package description and man page what the driver is capable of
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 04:42:31PM -0700, t takahashi wrote:
> (parenthetical note: i speak from experience. my non-working dvi
> output on my pretty-common g550 video card has been a thorn in my side
> for a really long time (years)
So it is here, 4 years now. :-/
> and has led to this situation:
>
> o i have to use xfree 4.2 with an outdated proprietary sourceless driver
Sarge's XFree 4.3 with Matrox closed driver (HALlib) is working fine
here. Well, not entirely, I still had to work around things with an
incredible configuration hack... :-(
With some more horrible hacking, it seems to be possible to make Matrox'
Hallib, and thus DVI, work with later X.org versions, too, see [1].
But actually, the unbelievable hassle of those procedures has stopped me
from upgrading my desktop to Etch till now.
Nikolaus
[1] http://matrox.tuxx-home.at
Hm, this website currently seems to be down. That's bad, I hope it will
recover!
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