It should work fine on unstable, without any need for the binary-only driver from Matrox. The only problem I've run across is that high-res text modes aren't restored properly (http://bugs.debian.org/122121), but hopefully that'll be fixed when X 4.2.0 is released.
On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 10:09:39AM +0200, Martin Fluch wrote: > Hi! > > I'm trying to get the a Matrox G450 running under a quite up to date > unstable system (XFree86 version 4.1.0.1, debian package version > 4.1.0-9) of a friend of mine. Is this card already supported with this > version of X (with the 4.1.0 it was/should have been)? So far I have the > idea, that I need do download somewhere some precompiled modules. But > where exactly to put them on a Debian system and how to include them > properly? Has anybody done this so far? > > Best wishes, > Martin