On Thursday 08 March 2001 07:17, Klar Brian D Contr MSG SICN wrote:
> I just bought a Matrox G450. Works great in Win98. However I decided to
> reinstall Mandrake from 8 pre-beta to 8 beta. When it was time to setup X,
> I chose 24 bit 1024x768, and XFree 4.02 3D with acceleration. When asked if
> I wanted to test X I chose yes, and the monitor went off. After 10 minutes
> I just decided to reboot. The boot disk wont work "unable to mount root
You're obviously new to this list and haven't been reading the recent posts.
Mandrake will not provide the freely distributable drivers for the Matrox
G450 because they're binary only, but you can download the driver directly
from Matrox's web site
(http://www.matrox.com/mga/support/drivers/latest/home.cfm). Download the
driver, copy the 2 files over, and reboot.
Remember to keep a backup copy of the driver, since an upgrade of XFree86
will replace your drivers with the unusable ones.
XFree86 is better off with NO Matrox support rather than what's shipping. At
least then people know to get the drivers from Matrox first.
.../Ed
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Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
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