RE: [Sheflug] XFree4 Matrox drivers...

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] ecosse.net>]

>===== Original Message From "Sheflug" <sheflug [at] vuw.ac.nz> =====
>On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Barrie Bremner wrote:
>
>>  However, X is still using the 3.3.6 SVGA driver that RedHat supply with
>> the RH7 install.
>
>Try installing the XFree 4.0.1 packages. THey *should* come with RH7 (ship
>a half finished compiler but not a bug fixed major release of XFree?), but
>are certainly available on Rawhide.
>
>If you have a G400 you get accelerated 3D, yay!


 I tried the Driver "mga" line last night, and X wouldn't start. I got a lot 
of
X-is-almost-there screen flashes, then a message that gdm had been murdered
mysteriously.
 I love some of these messages :-)

I have installed all of the XFree4.0.1a RPMs that came on the RH7 disks.

 I'm assuming that Rawhide is the development RH stuff? At any good mirror 
near me?

 Grrr.

 Strangely, running XConfigurator identifies the card OK as a 16Mb G400, and
specifies the SVGA driver plus a new line saying
 XFree4 driver (not used by default): mga

 Another thing I thought about - does the kernel matrox stuff need to be 
modules
or can it be built in?
 Am I missing something else driver wise, or is it all in the kernel (can't
quite believe than)

 Cheers.

 I-Still-Hate-X-Baz.

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