On Thursday 27 December 2001 15:53, Janine Roe wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I just bought myself a Matrox G550 (as G400 & G450 no longer seems to > > be available). It has Linux support ofcourse, but I cannot seem to > > make X work in any higher resolutions than VGA (640x480) and SVGA > > (320x200)!!? XFree86 (tried stable, testing and unstable as well) > > complains about missing chipset entries and such... When specifying > > anything more than 8-bit color depth, it tells me the chipset does not > > support this resolution. Obviosly it does not recognize the card > > correctly, wondering how most people got it working? I'm getting all > > sorts of errors and are at present really confused, so please tell me > > the steps nessesary to make it work. For the moment I have windows > > installed, but are keen on getting Debian installed correctly, as I > > like it much better. I have the same card here, runnig sid (xserver-xfree86 4.1.0-11). The Matrox G550 works without any problems. The only thing I had to do was to download the the mga & mga_hal drivers from the matrox web site, and put them into /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/.
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