Matrox G550 driver source and AMD64

[James Earl]

On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 02:08 +0100, Luc Verhaegen wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 05:39:46PM -0700, James Earl wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I just recently built an AMD64 based system using an Asus A8V Deluxe
> > motherboard and a Matrox G550 graphics card.  I'm running FreeBSD
> > 5.3-RELEASE/amd64.
> > 
> > I have a slight issue in that I can't use Matrox's binary drivers any
> > longer now that I'm using FreeBSD amd64.  I did notice that Matrox
> > provides driver source (mgadriver-4.0-src.tar.gz).
> > 
> > Would it be possible to integrate this into X.org in future releases so
> > that the mga_hal_drv.o is no longer required to be downloaded from
> > Matrox?
> > 
> > ...or, is there anyway that I may be able to learn how to build this
> > mga_hal_drv.o myself if Matrox doesn't allow their sources to be bundled
> > with Xorg?
> > 
> > James
> > 
> Adam Jackson recently attempted to contact Matrox on their license:
> http://forum.matrox.com/mga/viewtopic.php?t=12917
> I believe he was refered to legal at matrox.com by sales, i'm not sure if 
> he got a response from legal.
> 
> Btw, this driver source they released is only really an update to the 
> Xorg MIT licensed driver to support a new mga_hal ABI, nothing more.
> 
> Luc Verhaegen.

Thank you for the responses!  Since I just purchased this card I think
I'll return it and check out some other options.  I just thought I'd
give it a try... I should've checked on support a little more in depth
before hand.

James