On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 07:22:27PM -0400, Ray Goudie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| I just installed Red Hat Linux 7.
| First off, I could not install in GUI mode because the installation hung
| while trying to start X11.
| So, I installed in text mode. This seemed to go fine until it was time to
| run X11Configure. The display did not look correct. The image was very
| wavy and I only saw a portion of the whole virtual screen.
| I have a Matrox G450 Dual-Head video card.
I have done both RH7.0 and RH7.1beta2 (wolverine) with G450s.
For RH7.0 I have been doing this:
you get XFree86 4.0.1. For this you need the mga.o driver from Matrox's
site. (Note: that driver won't work with 4.0.2). Doing the install we do
it in text mode and _skip_ the test-the-video stage at the end. Then
mover the 4.0.1 mga.o sideays and install Matrox's. Happy.
For RH7.1beta2 (wolverine) I did this last Friday:
I grabbed the XFree86 4.0.3 RPMs from the rawhide distro (see any
mirror). So: text mode wolverine install, again _skipping_ the
video test at the end. Then upgrade the RPMs. Because of the dependencies
I ended up fetching these:
Mesa-3.4-13.i386.rpm XFree86-V4L-4.0.3-1.i386.rpm
Mesa-demos-3.4-13.i386.rpm XFree86-xdm-4.0.3-1.i386.rpm
Mesa-devel-3.4-13.i386.rpm XFree86-xf86cfg-4.0.3-1.i386.rpm
XFree86-4.0.3-1.i386.rpm XFree86-xfs-4.0.3-1.i386.rpm
XFree86-devel-4.0.3-1.i386.rpm XFree86-Xnest-4.0.3-1.i386.rpm
XFree86-libs-4.0.3-1.i386.rpm XFree86-Xvfb-4.0.3-1.i386.rpm
Drop them into a directory, cd there, say:
rpm -Fv *.rpm
It should go ok. Then as root say:
XFree86 -configure
It gets it right first time, but test it as it tells you. If happy,
install the new config file as /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 for all to use.
By default it chooses 8 bit colour. Ick. hack it to use 16 or 24.
(I just cheat and pass the "-depth 16" option to the server at start).
I'm now happily running at 1792x1344.
It is my belief that the 4.0.3 XFree86 RPMs should install perfectly happily
on RH7.0, too, saving the hassle of getting the Matrox-supplied driver. I
will have to find a guinea pig for this this coming week.
--
Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/
...the problem is not what is in front of the eyepiece but is often what is
behind it. - Don Farra
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