Oleksandr Moskalenko wrote: > > Mine tries to load the mga_hal module and fails, presumably > > because I haven't installed it. I take it you've downloaded the one > > from matrox.com? What does it do? Also, FWIW, if you don't install > > the matrox drivers, the 450 is only supported starting with X > > 4.1.0. > > On my G400 mga_hal prevents dri from being enabled. I assume that's > because mga_hal was compiled for ?4.0 and they haven't updated it for > 4.1, yet. Everything seems to work beautifully WITHOUT any Matrox > drivers even though mga_hal load failure message shows up in XFree86 > log. Someone else posted similar experiences for their G450 on this > list before, too.
It works also with the mga_hal driver (downloaded from matrox.com) loaded, after recompiling it on X version 4.1.0. On a system w/ G450 that is. regards, Remco.