Sluggers,
Background;
Objective: Get a Matrox G400 working in dual screen mode in Hardy Heron.
Status: Works in FC5 with the binary mga_drv.so and mga_hal_drv.so as supplied by Matrox. Matrox no longer support this
card so existing binary drivers won't load into the latest OS/Xorg versions.
According to Matrox, and the readout from startX when the card is detected, to work in dual screen mode this card
requires the mga_hal_drv.so module (note however that the G450 card does not but this is a G400). The mga_drv.so as
supplied with Ubuntu doesn't work dual screens with this card, it doesn't attempt to load mga_hal_drv.so nor is such a
hal driver supplied with the distribution.
Matrox "open sourced" the driver code which I've downloaded and have managed to
compile under FC5. However......
When I try to compile it under Hardy I get lots and lots of broken includes such as pixman.h not found, (which turned
out to be hiding under /usr/include/pixman-1) but I'm really stuck on xf86drm.h and drm.h which don't appear to exist
anywhere nor does google suggest a package in which they might be found.
Anyone have any experience trying to build video drivers in Ubuntu?
Alternatively, anyone know where I can get a cheap dual screen card with
traditional 15 pin outputs that
"just works (tm)" in Hardy?
TIA's
Pete
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