Re: [OT] Re: Matrox G450 problems with 2.4.0 and xfree

2001-02-06 Thread David Woodhouse
On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Mike A. Harris wrote: > If anyone has open source g450 patches against stock 4.0.2 that > get the thing to work at all, _please_ send me unified diffs, and > I will put them into my next build. I've yet to have my g450 do > anything but turn off my monitor, although a handful

Re: [OT] Re: Matrox G450 problems with 2.4.0 and xfree

2001-02-06 Thread Rafael E. Herrera
"Mike A. Harris" wrote: > > If anyone has open source g450 patches against stock 4.0.2 that > get the thing to work at all, _please_ send me unified diffs, and > I will put them into my next build. I've yet to have my g450 do > anything but turn off my monitor, although a handful of people > cla

[OT] Re: Matrox G450 problems with 2.4.0 and xfree

2001-02-06 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Petr Vandrovec wrote: >> >> I don't have Windows installed on my machine, but I find that if I >> >> cold boot to 2.2 (RH7) first and start up X (4.0.2 with Matrox driver > ^ >> >> 1.00.04 compiled in), I

Re: Matrox G450 problems with 2.4.0 and xfree

2001-02-06 Thread Petr Vandrovec
On 6 Feb 01 at 13:16, Mike A. Harris wrote: > On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Petr Vandrovec wrote: > > >> I don't have Windows installed on my machine, but I find that if I > >> cold boot to 2.2 (RH7) first and start up X (4.0.2 with Matrox driver

Re: Matrox G450 problems with 2.4.0 and xfree

2001-02-06 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Petr Vandrovec wrote: >> I don't have Windows installed on my machine, but I find that if I >> cold boot to 2.2 (RH7) first and start up X (4.0.2 with Matrox driver >> 1.00.04 compiled in), I am then able to "shutdown -r now" and warm > >Yes, they use same secret code... At

Re: Matrox G450 problems with 2.4.0 and xfree

2001-01-31 Thread Petr Vandrovec
On 31 Jan 01 at 17:41, J Brook wrote: > > I don't have Windows installed on my machine, but I find that if I > cold boot to 2.2 (RH7) first and start up X (4.0.2 with Matrox driver > 1.00.04 compiled in), I am then able to "shutdown -r now" and warm Yes, they use same secret code... At least I

Re: Matrox G450 problems with 2.4.0 and xfree

2001-01-31 Thread J Brook
Dear Petr, I think I might have something to add to this discussion, but then again you probably know this already! On Tue Jan 30 2001 Petr Vandrovec wrote: > > > > Installed a Matrox G450 on my linux system. Now it has > > > > problems booting. The kernel is compiled with framebuffer > > > > s

Re: Matrox G450 problems with 2.4.0 and xfree

2001-01-31 Thread Petr Vandrovec
On 31 Jan 01 at 8:44, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Marcel J.E. Mol wrote: > > > Installed a Matrox G450 on my linux system. Now it has problems > > booting. > > > > Previously I had a matrox G400 card and that worked without any problems. > > > > Below follows .config for the 2

Re: Matrox G450 problems with 2.4.0 and xfree

2001-01-31 Thread Marcel J.E. Mol
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 08:44:17AM +, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Marcel J.E. Mol wrote: > > > Installed a Matrox G450 on my linux system. Now it has problems > > booting. > > > > Previously I had a matrox G400 card and that worked without any problems. > > > > Below follo

Re: Matrox G450 problems with 2.4.0 and xfree

2001-01-31 Thread David Woodhouse
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Marcel J.E. Mol wrote: > Installed a Matrox G450 on my linux system. Now it has problems > booting. > > Previously I had a matrox G400 card and that worked without any problems. > > Below follows .config for the 2.4.0 kernel. > > # CONFIG_FB_MATROX_G450 is not set -- dwmw

Re: Matrox G450 problems with 2.4.0 and xfree

2001-01-30 Thread Petr Vandrovec
On 31 Jan 01 at 0:06, Marcel J.E. Mol wrote: > > > Installed a Matrox G450 on my linux system. Now it has problems > > > booting. The kernel is compiled with framebuffer support so is supposed > > > to boot up with the Linux logo. Unfortunately the systems hangs when > > > the kernel switches to

Re: Matrox G450 problems with 2.4.0 and xfree

2001-01-30 Thread Marcel J.E. Mol
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 04:53:45PM -0500, tc lewis wrote: > > try the latest driver that matrox provides. i had to do this with just a > stock redhat 7.0 system. i don't think the standard kernel distributions > redhat packages use a driver that knows about the 450 yet. > > http://www.matrox.c

Re: Matrox G450 problems with 2.4.0 and xfree

2001-01-30 Thread tc lewis
try the latest driver that matrox provides. i had to do this with just a stock redhat 7.0 system. i don't think the standard kernel distributions redhat packages use a driver that knows about the 450 yet. http://www.matrox.com/mga/support/drivers/files/linux_04.cfm -tcl. On Tue, 30 Jan 2001

Matrox G450 problems with 2.4.0 and xfree

2001-01-30 Thread Marcel J.E. Mol
Hi, Installed a Matrox G450 on my linux system. Now it has problems booting. The kernel is compiled with framebuffer support so is supposed to boot up with the Linux logo. Unfortunately the systems hangs when the kernel switches to the graphics mode. When I first boot into windoze and the reboot