Hi Andy, Many thanks for your quick response.
You say: "Where are you downloading your XFree86 source code? Your distribution may be splitting up the XFree86 tar into many smaller chunks in an attempt to mitigate its size, and it could be that they forgot about mga. I guess." Its beginnng to look as though the problem here has a lot more to do with something along these lines than anything else. With the distro I'm using, downloading sources, compiling and installing XFree86 - and everything else for that matter - is achieved with one command. You simply configure XFree86 the way you want it via menu, drivers most notably, enter the appropriate command and voila! But here I'm selecting the mga driver and its not being included for some reason. When I tried to use the drivers from Matrox and found that they would not compile because they were incompatible with the current version of XFree86, I mistakenly concluded that mga no longer came as part of XFree86 source code. You've straightened me out on that one, thank you. I've made inquiries with the distro's principal as to why my menu selection of mga is being ignored. I'll let you know what I learn. Very best regards. John Lowell ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy Goth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 3:25 AM Subject: Re: [XFree86] Matrox G550 Drivers And The Latest Version Of XFree86 > On Wednesday, July 16, 2003 2:06 am, John Lowell wrote: > > When I did the installations, I configured XFree86 to include the > > mga display driver. > > How did you do *this* configuration? I usually do it by editing > xc/config/cf/xf86site.def . Look for XF86CardDrivers. > > > I configured via xf86config and everything seemed fine > > but exiting out of my window manager I get messages indicating that the mga > > module can't be located. > > Please send us your /var/log/XFree86.0.log and your /etc/X11/XF86Config files. > I'm not sure how XFree86 would start if it couldn't find the driver it was > configured to use, or how XFree86 would complain about being unable to load a > driver it isn't configured to use. > > > A little checking revealed both that the driver > > wasn't included with the source code downloaded for XFree86 after all and > > that further attempts to get it through the distro's resources would come > > to naught. > > Where are you downloading your XFree86 source code? Your distribution may be > splitting up the XFree86 tar into many smaller chunks in an attempt to > mitigate its size, and it could be that they forgot about mga. I guess. > > I recommend getting your source straight from the, uh, source. :^) Bad > Andy... heh. > > > Drivers available from Matrox for this card won't compile since > > none were designed for the current version of XFree86. I would dearly love > > to have a card specific driver for these boxes and am at sea regard the > > proper course to follow. Is source code for an mga driver that will work > > with the current version of XFree86 available? If so, where do I go to get > > it? > > XFree86 comes with an mga driver. It has been there for at least four years. > And yet CVS reports the latest change as being only four hours old. I guess > that means it's actively developed. :^) > > Look in xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/mga/ . Everything should be > there. > > By the way, the standard XFree86 distribution tarball unpacks into the "xc" > directory. This is what I refer to above. > > -- > Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ > Engineers love to change things. > > _______________________________________________ > XFree86 mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 > _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
