RE: [Cooker] Fwd: Re: [expert] Matrox G450 and Mandrake 8
Thanks, I got it last weekend. Now I want to get both displays working. I wonder if KDE has a way to get desktop 1 on one, and desktop 2 on the other. Or even better, two instances of KDE2 one per each screen. BTW: I installed RH 7.1b last weekend, and for some reason, my Hauppague TV card now works. This tells me my whole problem with the card is a Mandrake issue. However I know it cant be since so many replied back when I posted that problem. Brian -Original Message- From: Eric MC D [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 6:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Cooker] Fwd: Re: [expert] Matrox G450 and Mandrake 8 -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [expert] Matrox G450 and Mandrake 8 Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 14:01:03 -0500 (EST) From: Anthony Moulen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" [EMAIL PROTECTED] There is a known issue with the Matrox G450 and Xfree86 4.0.2 (and 4.0.1 I believe) where it activates the second header when going into X. This means that it outputs your display on port 2 instead of port 1. The only fix for this I have heard so far is to install the binary files from the Matrox web site. Do you install, but do not test X. Complete everything else. Boot up into failsafe mode, copy the files over as directed and then try starting X. You should be all set. I found that setting up my G450 was very easy after downloading the updated drivers. I even have DRI support which makes watching DVDs and such much much nicer. Good luck. On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Klar Brian D Contr MSG SICN wrote: I just bought a Matrox G450. Works great in Win98. However I decided to reinstall Mandrake from 8 pre-beta to 8 beta. When it was time to setup X, I chose 24 bit 1024x768, and XFree 4.02 3D with acceleration. When asked if I wanted to test X I chose yes, and the monitor went off. After 10 minutes I just decided to reboot. The boot disk wont work "unable to mount root fs". Any help with the Matrox Card? Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB (937) 656-2861 (937) 973-3125 (pager) --- -- The years of peak mental activity are undoubtedly between the ages of four and eighteen. At four we know all the questions, at eighteen all the answers.
[Cooker] unable to get successful install
I have tried and tried to get 8.0 beta to install on my PII 450 system. Here is what I have in my system. hda - 6.4G hd hdb - zip 100 int. hdc - 6.4G hd hdd - Sony CD/RW sda - 4.3G hd sdb - 4.3G hd 128M Ram, Matrox G450, AWE64value(ISA), 3Com 905B, Hauppague Win TV/Radio, Supra Express 56k int modem (ISA), Gigabyte Motherboard, MS Optical Mouse, Adaptec 2930 SCSI controller hda - is all win 98 hdc - is what I have always used for linux drive This is how my system has been configured (minus Matrox) for the last two years now. This configuration has been fine since v6.0 Mandrake, and RH before that. The installation went well. I chose expert, and just (this time) highlighted the stars, not individual package selection. 22 minutes later, I started the post installation. All was fine there. On another occassion, when configuring X I chose 3D accelerated, and when I tested, it locked my system up, so this time I chose just X4.02, and did not test. I made a boot disk. The finalizing of the install thrashed around for like 20 minutes, with just a watch on the screen, so I had to turn off the system. Now all I get is kernel panic, no matter what kernel choice I make "unable to mount . 16:09" I use reiserfs for all partitions but /boot The boot disk is useless, it writes files to the disk, but is not bootable. Actually, the light comes on, and a moment later it just trys to boot from HD Any help as siince pre-beta 8 is running so smooth on my laptop right now P.S. pre beta had an issue with same machine as in the fact cdrecord would not see my CDRW. It would see my zip, and the 2 scsi hd's only... Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB (937) 656-2861 (937) 973-3125 (pager)
[Cooker] Matrox G450 and 8 beta
I just bought a Matrox G450. Works great in Win98. However I decided to reinstall Mandrake from 8 pre-beta to 8 beta. When it was time to setup X, I chose 24 bit 1024x768, and XFree 4.02 3D with acceleration. When asked if I wanted to test X I chose yes, and the monitor went off. After 10 minutes I just decided to reboot. The boot disk wont work "unable to mount root fs". Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB (937) 656-2861 (937) 973-3125 (pager)
