On Monday 27 August 2001 06:01, Fran�ois Pons wrote:
> Fabrice FACORAT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Le Lundi 27 Ao�t 2001 11:11, vous avez �crit :
> > > Borsenkow Andrej <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > > I thought Matrox cards are supported by XFree-4. Are there some
> > > > issues?
> > >
> > > Have you tested if it works really with XFree-4 ?
> > >
> > > As it is effectively stated as unsupported by Xfree-4 on Cards+
> > > file, but this could be a typo, please if you can check.
> >
> > http://www.xfree86.org/4.1.0/Status18.html#18
> > http://www.xfree86.org/4.1.0/mga.4.html
> >
> > 18. Matrox
> >
> > 3.3.6:
> >
> > Support (accelerated) for the MGA2064W (Millennium I), MGA1064SG
> > (Mystique), MGA2164W (Millennium II) (PCI and AGP), G100, G200 and
> > G400 is provided by the XF86_SVGA server with the mga driver.
> > 4.1.0:
> >
> > Support (accelerated) for the MGA2064W (Millennium I), MGA1064SG
> > (Mystique), MGA2164W (Millennium II) (PCI and AGP), G100, G200, G400,
> > and G450 is provided by the "mga" driver.
> > Summary:
> >
> > All hardware supported in 3.3.6 is also supported in 4.1.0. The
> > G450 is supported only in 4.1.0.
>
> This has always been the case since 4.0, but if the support in early 4.0
> has been removed to use 4.0, this was problably done because it was
> broken.
>
> Does anyone can test with such old chipset with newer XFree-4.1 ?
>
> Fran�ois.
Yes. I'm running 8.0 with XF403 on a P166 with an old PCI Millenium card.
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