On Sunday 21 January 2001 15:04, John Cavan wrote:
> Giuseppe Ghibo' wrote:
> > OK, I was wondering if someone successfull get 3D accel under
> > Matrox G400 with XF 4.0.2.
>
> I haven't been able to get my Matrox G400 working under 4.0.2 even with
> the DRI code from SourceForge. I've tried it with the Matrox HAL and
> without. Always dumps with Sig 11.
I built a new system from scratch yesterday with a G450 card. It took me a
while, but I finally got the sucker working under 4.0.2. Comments:
- You need to get the driver from ftp.matrox.com. You're looking for
/pub/mga/archive/linux/2001/beta_1_00_04
- get the readme and read it. Copy the mga_drv.o file into your X directory.
Run XFdrake a few times to get the setup right. It does eventually work.
- I haven't done any 3d testing either than to try tuxracer, and it still
sucks for performance - just as bad on the G450 as on the SiS 6326 card.
- In my opinion, MandrakeSoft has blown it with Matrox support. They're
forcing customers to go to Matrox to get the driver. I realize they hate
proprietary software, but here's a quote from the readme:
"Due to certain legal liabilities and for the protection of intellectual
property, Matrox reserves licensing rights to the library and prohibits
reverse engineering but allows free distribution under any operating system.
Matrox encourages members of the open source community to freely distribute
and assist in the further development of this driver."
Even though the driver they ship is definitely not GPL, neither is Netscape
and Mandrake has no problems shipping it.
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Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
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