Re: [Cooker] Matrox G450 and 8 beta
Vadim Plessky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thursday 15 March 2001 8:40, you wrote: | Ed Wilts [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] |.../Ed | | I have uploaded a 11mdk which should work fine with G450. Could you | test it ? May I ask somebody to build LM 7.2-compatible binaries and upload them in /mandrake-devel/unsupported? Latest what I have seen there were -4mdk :-(( done by Giuseppe -- Fred - May the source be with you
Re: [Cooker] Matrox G450 and 8 beta
On Monday 19 March 2001 8:24, you wrote: | Vadim Plessky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | |May I ask somebody to build LM 7.2-compatible binaries and upload them |in /mandrake-devel/unsupported? | Latest what I have seen there were -4mdk :-(( | | done by Giuseppe O, thanks! Started downloading them... Also downloaded Nautilus (SRPM) and going to rebuild it for LM 7.2. Hope, there will be no major issues. -- Vadim Plessky http://kde2.newmail.ru (English) http://kde2.newmail.ru/index_rus.html (Russian) Do you have Arial font installed? Just test it! http://kde2.newmail.ru/font_test_arial.html
Re: [Cooker] Matrox G450 and 8 beta
Ed Wilts [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thursday 08 March 2001 07:17, 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 You're obviously new to this list and haven't been reading the recent posts. Mandrake will not provide the freely distributable drivers for the Matrox G450 because they're binary only, but you can download the driver directly from Matrox's web site (http://www.matrox.com/mga/support/drivers/latest/home.cfm). Download the driver, copy the 2 files over, and reboot. Remember to keep a backup copy of the driver, since an upgrade of XFree86 will replace your drivers with the unusable ones. XFree86 is better off with NO Matrox support rather than what's shipping. At least then people know to get the drivers from Matrox first. .../Ed I have uploaded a 11mdk which should work fine with G450. Could you test it ? -- Fred - May the source be with you
Re: [Cooker] Matrox G450 and 8 beta
On Thursday 15 March 2001 8:40, you wrote: | Ed Wilts [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] | .../Ed | | I have uploaded a 11mdk which should work fine with G450. Could you | test it ? May I ask somebody to build LM 7.2-compatible binaries and upload them in /mandrake-devel/unsupported? Latest what I have seen there were -4mdk :-(( -- Vadim Plessky http://kde2.newmail.ru (English) http://kde2.newmail.ru/index_rus.html (Russian) Do you have Arial font installed? Just test it! http://kde2.newmail.ru/font_test_arial.html
Re: [Cooker] Matrox G450 and 8 beta
On Thursday 15 March 2001 02:40, Frederic Lepied wrote: Ed Wilts [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: XFree86 is better off with NO Matrox support rather than what's shipping. At least then people know to get the drivers from Matrox first. .../Ed I have uploaded a 11mdk which should work fine with G450. Could you test it ? It works great! I'm running it now and so far it's indistinguishable from the Matrox driver. Thanks! .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Cooker] Matrox G450 and 8 beta
On Thursday 08 March 2001 07:17, 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 You're obviously new to this list and haven't been reading the recent posts. Mandrake will not provide the freely distributable drivers for the Matrox G450 because they're binary only, but you can download the driver directly from Matrox's web site (http://www.matrox.com/mga/support/drivers/latest/home.cfm). Download the driver, copy the 2 files over, and reboot. Remember to keep a backup copy of the driver, since an upgrade of XFree86 will replace your drivers with the unusable ones. XFree86 is better off with NO Matrox support rather than what's shipping. At least then people know to get the drivers from Matrox first. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
