Tweaking XFree for 2D cards by hand ?

[Daniel Robitaille]

> Okay, I have left the X conf file as is, I modified only the "Device"
> section, replaced "nv" with "mga", and put the correct PCI address of
> the card, using 'lspci'. Seems to work. Do I need to put 'mga'
> in /etc/modules, in the same way that there is 'nvidia' in there at the
> moment ?

no, you don't need mga in /etc/modules
 
> Would be great if I could select a 1152*864 resolution though, because
> the Matrox card won't go above 1024*764 ! :-/ Well it will, maybe I need
> to lower the colour depth from 24 down to 16 ?? Will try that...

I believe that card can go to 1280x1024 (but I never tried...)