On Sam, 2003-09-13 at 23:54, David Palmer wrote: > On Sunday 14 September 2003 00:10, Brian C wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm having trouble getting my Matrox G550 working with Debian, because > > it is not supported in the version of XFree86 that is installed with > > Woody. I've successfully upgraded XFree86 to unstable but X still barfs > > when I try to start it. (mga_hal module doesn't exist, etc.) Anyway, > > that's not really the point, unless someone wants to tell me > > step-by-step how they got their G550 working.
I'm using the X 4.2.1 backport to woody by Adrian bunk: deb http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/debian woody/bunk-1 main contrib non-free deb-src http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/debian woody/bunk-1 main contrib non-free Also included in the Gnome 2.2 backport. I did nothing special at all. It worked out of the box with both the XFree driver and the Matrox-supplied driver. My XF86Config-4 includes this: Section "Device" Identifier "MATROX CARD 1" Driver "mga" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" EndSection If you use the proprietary drivers, be sure to include Option "HWCursor" "off" in this section, too. I found that the XFree drivers worked better than Matrox's drivers. I can't see anything Matrox's do better, on the downside they can't use HWCursor and X needs longer to start up. It may be that some stuff I don#t use like Xinerama and TV out are better or only work with them, though. If you use XFree's, you#ll get the message that mga_hal can't load, but this does no harm - it's only needed for Matrox PowerDesk config tool, availabel with their drivers. You can get the Matrox drivers here http://www.matrox.com/mga/support/drivers/latest/home.cfm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]