I.J.W. Wever wrote: > A few days ago I installed Woody and since then I have been trying to > get Xwindows running. I've downloaded the appropriate drivers for my > Matrox G450 from the Matrox site and tried the XF86config with various > options, but withous succes.
These are not strictly neccessary for the G450 > I don't know how to tell XFree86 to use > the mga_hal driver that Matrox supplied (simply putting it in the > place of the 'vga' driver in /etc/X11/XF86Config doesn't quite work). Read the instructions that came in the matrox tarball. You just need to copy a few files over. The mga driver will detect the presence of the matrox HAL lib automatically. > Also there seems to be a discrepency between the startx logfile (which > mentions the mga_hal driver) and XF86Config (which only mentions the > standard 'vga' driver). > > Below I have included my /etc/X11/XF86XConfig and the log produced by > startx with the final failure: 'No screens found' (a pretty common > one, so it seems when I search the net and the archives of this list, but > with varying > cause) > > Ideas anyone? Change this: > Section "Device" > Identifier "G450" > Driver "vga" to this: Section "Device" Identifier "G450" Driver "mga" -- Simon Hepburn. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]