Hi Andy,
Many thanks for your quick response.
You say:
"Where are you downloading your XFree86 source code? Your distribution may
be
splitting up the XFree86 tar into many smaller chunks in an attempt to
mitigate its size, and it could be that they forgot about mga. I guess."
Its beginnng to look as though the problem here has a lot more to do with
something along these lines than anything else. With the distro I'm using,
downloading sources, compiling and installing XFree86 - and everything else
for that matter - is achieved with one command. You simply configure XFree86
the way you want it via menu, drivers most notably, enter the appropriate
command and voila! But here I'm selecting the mga driver and its not being
included for some reason. When I tried to use the drivers from Matrox and
found that they would not compile because they were incompatible with the
current version of XFree86, I mistakenly concluded that mga no longer came
as part of XFree86 source code. You've straightened me out on that one,
thank you. I've made inquiries with the distro's principal as to why my menu
selection of mga is being ignored. I'll let you know what I learn.
Very best regards.
John Lowell
- Original Message -
From: "Andy Goth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 3:25 AM
Subject: Re: [XFree86] Matrox G550 Drivers And The Latest Version Of XFree86
> On Wednesday, July 16, 2003 2:06 am, John Lowell wrote:
> > When I did the installations, I configured XFree86 to include the
> > mga display driver.
>
> How did you do *this* configuration? I usually do it by editing
> xc/config/cf/xf86site.def . Look for XF86CardDrivers.
>
> > I configured via xf86config and everything seemed fine
> > but exiting out of my window manager I get messages indicating that the
mga
> > module can't be located.
>
> Please send us your /var/log/XFree86.0.log and your /etc/X11/XF86Config
files.
> I'm not sure how XFree86 would start if it couldn't find the driver it was
> configured to use, or how XFree86 would complain about being unable to
load a
> driver it isn't configured to use.
>
> > A little checking revealed both that the driver
> > wasn't included with the source code downloaded for XFree86 after all
and
> > that further attempts to get it through the distro's resources would
come
> > to naught.
>
> Where are you downloading your XFree86 source code? Your distribution may
be
> splitting up the XFree86 tar into many smaller chunks in an attempt to
> mitigate its size, and it could be that they forgot about mga. I guess.
>
> I recommend getting your source straight from the, uh, source. :^) Bad
> Andy... heh.
>
> > Drivers available from Matrox for this card won't compile since
> > none were designed for the current version of XFree86. I would dearly
love
> > to have a card specific driver for these boxes and am at sea regard the
> > proper course to follow. Is source code for an mga driver that will work
> > with the current version of XFree86 available? If so, where do I go to
get
> > it?
>
> XFree86 comes with an mga driver. It has been there for at least four
years.
> And yet CVS reports the latest change as being only four hours old. I
guess
> that means it's actively developed. :^)
>
> Look in xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/mga/ . Everything should
be
> there.
>
> By the way, the standard XFree86 distribution tarball unpacks into the
"xc"
> directory. This is what I refer to above.
>
> --
> Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/
> Engineers love to change things.
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