On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Paul Mackinney wrote: > Simon Hepburn declaimed: > > Paul Mackinney wrote: > > > > > After apt-get dist-updating to the latest version of sid last night > > > (approx 2002-04-03 23:00 PST), I can't start X-windows. > > > > > Anyone else having problems? Should I report a bug? > > > > Well, is this is a matrox bug or an X bug ? I would post to debian-x > > initially, rather than file a bug report. > It's a matrox bug... sort of. After remembering that I have a brain, I > reinstalled the custom beta mga drivers I got from the Matrox website > and well (blush) all is OK. doh!
Paul: the only custom drivers i can find on the matrox site have to be compiled from source along with X and under a 2.4 kernel. is that the only way to get em?? thanks dave -- Dave Mallery, K5EN (r/h 7.2 krud; debian woody) PO Box 520 Ramah, NM 87321 no gates .~. no windows... /V\ /( )\ running GNU/Linux ^^-^^ (Linux TM Linus Torvalds) free at last! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]