Re: [Sheflug] XFree4 Matrox drivers...

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] ecosse.net>]

Richard Stevenson wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Barrie Bremner wrote:
> 
> >  Now that I've finally got my SMP motherboard back, I'm running as I
> > should be...including my Matrox card - which I haven't configured
> > correctly.
> >
> >  I'm running 2.4.0-test10-pre3, and I've compiled in matrox support, agp
> > support and all the relevant options I could see that goes with that.
> >
> >  However, X is still using the 3.3.6 SVGA driver that RedHat supply with
> > the RH7 install.
> >
> >  How do I force the system to use the Matrox driver?
> 
> It's in your XF86Config file.  In the graphics devices section, I've got
> something like this:
> 
> Section "Device"
>     Identifier  "Default video card"
>     Driver      "mga"
>     #VideoRam    8192
> VideoRam 8192
>     # Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
> EndSection
> 
> And in the "Screen" section, I tell X to use that device like this:
> 
> Device      "Default video card"
> 
> FWIW, I couldn't even get the kernel compile (2.2.18presomething) a few
> weeks ago with AGP and/or MGA support...  <sigh>  I see in Alan Cox's
> diary that it might be fixed now, though.  Hmm... now that I'm not running
> VMWare, I might look at the 2.4 kernels :-)  I hear PCMCIA support is
> integrated in 2.4 to some extent....  is that correct?
> 

 There is an option in the kernel menuconfig for PCMCIA/CardBus support
and also hotswapable devices.
 Unfortunately, I can't tell you how good it is - I don't use USB or own
a laptop.

 I'm off to poke XF86Config a bit. Cheers!

 Baz.

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