Re: [Sheflug] XFree4 Matrox drivers...

[Richard Stevenson <nospam [at] team.xtra.co.nz>]

On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Barrie Bremner wrote:

>  Now that I've finally got my SMP motherboard back, I'm running as I
> should be...including my Matrox card - which I haven't configured
> correctly.
> 
>  I'm running 2.4.0-test10-pre3, and I've compiled in matrox support, agp
> support and all the relevant options I could see that goes with that.
> 
>  However, X is still using the 3.3.6 SVGA driver that RedHat supply with
> the RH7 install.
> 
>  How do I force the system to use the Matrox driver?

It's in your XF86Config file.  In the graphics devices section, I've got
something like this:

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "Default video card"
    Driver      "mga"
    #VideoRam    8192
VideoRam 8192
    # Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
EndSection


And in the "Screen" section, I tell X to use that device like this:

Device      "Default video card"

FWIW, I couldn't even get the kernel compile (2.2.18presomething) a few
weeks ago with AGP and/or MGA support...  <sigh>  I see in Alan Cox's
diary that it might be fixed now, though.  Hmm... now that I'm not running
VMWare, I might look at the 2.4 kernels :-)  I hear PCMCIA support is
integrated in 2.4 to some extent....  is that correct?

Cheers

R


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