On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 22:24, B. Levin wrote: > I figured it out. > > first, ensure you have agp in the kernel, as: > > device agp > > then the xf86config should be like: > > http://www.grateful.net/XF86Config-freebsd > > and finally, and perhaps the most important, the freebsd 4.7/4.8 ports > collection of mga_drv.o (etc) are BAD and don't work! ;-( I used the > mgadrivers-2.0.tgz file from the matrox site instead, and even though they > 'seem' to be linux drivers, they work fine on freebsd! move them to > /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers and then startx. > > that's what did it for me. I now have xinerama working on freebsd > just like it did on linux ;-) even the usb scroll mouse works. happy.
Apparently you do need the ddx module from matrox, not just the hal module, for the hal module to work properly. I had removed the building of the matrox ddx module based on my understanding that the XFree distributed source worked fine with the hal, which was wrong. The ideal thing would be if someone could figure out what the important changes are in the matrox version compared to the xfree86 one so we could just make a patch. Another alternative would be to make an mga_driver port like the nvidia_driver port that built and installed the necessary parts as alternative drivers. People could install it if they chose and wouldn't require flags in the XFree86-Server port, which I'm not a fan of. Note that for now, building/installing of the matrox distributed drivers has been removed from the 4.3 ports. -- Eric Anholt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
