Ed Wilts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 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
I have uploaded a 11mdk which should work fine with G450. Could you
test it ?
--
Fred - May the source be with you
