On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 05:48, Brian C wrote: > on a lot of the packages that I thought would adequately upgrade me to > Xfree86, but I'm getting the impression that I have to recompile the > kernel to include the mga module or something from the error message I'm > getting when X won't start. So two questions, 1) Anyone installed a > Matrox 550 card under Debian? What'd you do? and 2) What are all the > packages I would need to upgrade to have all the X stuff at the testing > level? Thanks for any help.
I came across some XFree 4.3 packages and used them for some time without the slightest problems. # XFree86 4.3.0 backport for Woody by Daniel Stone deb http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/xfree86/$(ARCH)/ ./ I did not check whether these repositories are still online, if not maybe this query might be of some use: http://www.google.com/search?q=xfree%204.3%20backport%20woody The following package might also be pretty interesting in your case: """ Package: mga-vid-source Description: Kernel driver for the back-end scaler on Matrox cards (source) The mga_vid module will enable you to use the back-end scaler found on many Matrox cards. If you own a Matrox card, and use your Debian system to watch movies with 'mplayer', which you'll find at http://mplayerhq.hu , you definitely want this piece of software, as it is the best video output driver available. . This package just contain the sources needed to build the kernel module. To actually use it, you'll have to compile it to match your installed kernel. Refer to /usr/share/doc/mga-vid-source/README.Debian for information on how to do this. """ hth, sebas --------------------------------------------------------------------------- You may be infinitely smaller than some things, but you're infinitely larger than others.
