Re: [XFree86] XFree86] MATROX G400 and XFree86,

2004-08-08 Thread Guy Waugh
GRCBHEAX wrote: Hello Following Guy´s Recomendation I installed mga_hal drivers for the MATROX Card. To do this first I had to install the XFree86 4.3.0 release, which I did. Now the system reports a Mouse Error. I am using a PS/2 Mouse (DELL Intellimouse 1.2A PS/2 Compatible). I tried several

Re: [XFree86] MATROX G400 and XFree86

2004-07-20 Thread Guy Waugh
Hi Enrique, I had a similar situation recently with my Matrox G550 and DVI monitor. It all worked when I installed the mga_hal driver. I went to the Matrox website and downloaded the latest driver pack for linux (I am running XF4.3.0 - there's another driver pack for previous versions of X). I

Re: [XFree86] mga, Philips 170B2, RHEL3, XF4.3.0: Can't get higher resolutions

2004-07-12 Thread Guy Waugh
Ryan Underwood wrote: It's using 8-bit color depth, which will make things look pretty rotten. In the Screen section, change the Depth and the DefaultDepth to 24 and see if that meets more with your expectations. Yeah, thanks Ryan, I discovered xvidtune yesterday, and quickly found that 24 bit

[XFree86] mga, Philips 170B2, RHEL3, XF4.3.0: Can't get higher resolutions

2004-07-11 Thread Guy Waugh
Hi there, I have just installed RHEL3 (and upgraded XFree86 RPMs to XFree86-*4.3.0-[55|62]), and can't get video resolutions above 800x600 (at least that's what it looks like). I have a Matrox G550 w/ 32Mb RAM and a Philips 170B2B-40C DVI monitor. Last week, I had Gentoo installed on this box,