Matrox G550 and DualHead support.

Alex Deucher alexdeucher at gmail.com
Sun Aug 29 14:45:06 PDT 2004


On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 15:22:52 -0500, Ryan Underwood
<nemesis-lists at icequake.net> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 07:39:05PM +0200, Marcin Giedz wrote:
> >
> > But another question. I have downloaded beta source and binary drivers from
> > matrox. Binary are compiled only for XFree4.3 and source hmmm I simply can't
> > find how to compile it. Can I use binary from XFree4.3 with X.org compiled
> > from CVS or is it possible to compile drivers and how can I do it?
> 
> You only need the mga_hal_drv.o from the matrox binary package.  The
> X.org driver should find and load it ok assuming it can be located
> through one of your ModulePath directives.

You also may need to specify "use HAL" or some similar thing in you
host.def as I recall.  I don't remeber what the default is.

Alex

> 
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> Ryan Underwood, <nemesis at icequake.net>
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