On 07 Aug 2001 19:50:43 -0500, Matthew Garman wrote: > > Now the new card is installed, and the old card is out of my system. X no > longer works. I tried to use XF86Setup to setup the video card, but that > didn't work either. I did a little bit of search on google groups, and it > looks like XFree 3.x doesn't support the g450---is this correct?
The G450 contains some hardware features that (AFAIK) Matrox has not released documentation/source for. This is why XFree 3.x, and (the last time I checked, even XFree 4) don't work directly with the G450. If you get to XFree 4, my advice is the following: First, try running `XFree86 --configure`. I've generally had good success with this. You may want to try this with and without the drivers supplied by Matrox ( http://www.matrox.com/ ). If you want 3D support, you will also need to the DRM modules from http://www.xfree86.org/~alanh/ (the ones in current kernels are not quite up to date). > If I do, in fact, have to upgrade to XFree 4.x, what is the "best" way to > do that? Here, "best" means that it involves the least amount of > downloading---I'm on a slow, unreliable analog modem. I'm not sure what would be best here, but I didn't see mention of which version of Debian (stable/potato, unstable/sid, testing/woody). This information will probabbly help someone else help you out more here. > So what's the best route to take here? Is there any chance I can use this > card with XFree 3.x? If you're not too concerned about the speed of your display (in particular 3D) you could try running a framebuffer (as compilable from your kernel, linux/Documentation/fb/matroxfb.txt) and using the framebuffer drivers/servers for whichever X version you choose to run. > > Thanks, > Matt Jeremy Nickurak -= [EMAIL PROTECTED] =- "You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help." -- Calvin
