X drivers for Matrox G400 anyone?

[Magnus Runesson]

On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 08:34 +0100, Magnus Therning wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 10:24:39AM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> >On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 06:42:02PM +0100, Magnus Therning wrote:
> >> Is anyone sitting on drivers for Matrox G400 that works with the X
> >> server currently found in Hoary?
> >> 
> >> Matrox only releases binary versions supporting X.org 6.8.0 and 6.8.1.
> >> The version in Hoary is 6.8.2 and no, the 6.8.1 doesn't work :-)
> >> 
> >> I'd be happy to compile it myself, if someone could confirm it's not too
> >> much work (i.e. I don't have to recompile all of X as well).
> >
> >The 'mga' driver included with Hoary should work just fine on G4xx.  Do
> >you have any specific problem?
> 
> AFAIK it doesn't support dual-head, and if I'm to replace my Windows
> machine at work I need dual-head.

I am using matrox G450 with Dualhead. If I remember right my mga-driver
is from hoary. Since you say Matrox does not have released any driver
for Hoary:s X-server, it must be the case.


Here is my XF86Config-4-file, maybe it can help you:

# XF86Config-4 (XFree86 X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool,
using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the XF86Config-4 manual page.
# (Type "man XF86Config-4" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xfree86 package upgrades
*only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the
xserver-xfree86
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically
updated
# again, run the following commands as root:
#
#   cp /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.custom
#   md5sum /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 >/var/lib/xfree86/XF86Config-4.md5sum
#   dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86

Section "Files"
	FontPath	"unix/:7100"			# local font server
	# if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these
	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID"
	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
        # paths to defoma fonts
	FontPath	"/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
	FontPath	"/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/CID"
EndSection

Section "Module"
	Load	"GLcore"
	Load	"bitmap"
	Load	"dbe"
	Load	"ddc"
	Load	"dri"
	Load	"extmod"
	Load	"freetype"
	Load	"glx"
	Load	"int10"
	Load	"record"
	Load	"speedo"
	Load	"type1"
	Load	"v4l"
	Load	"vbe"
	Load	"xtt"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Generic Keyboard"
	Driver		"keyboard"
	Option		"CoreKeyboard"
	Option		"XkbRules"	"xfree86"
	Option		"XkbModel"	"pc105"
	Option		"XkbLayout"	"se"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Configured Mouse"
	Driver		"mouse"
	Option		"CorePointer"
	Option		"Device"		"/dev/input/mice"
	Option		"Protocol"		"ImPS/2"
	Option		"Emulate3Buttons"	"true"
	Option		"ZAxisMapping"		"4 5"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier	"Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G400 AGP"
	Driver		"mga"
	Option	        "AGPMode" "4"
	Option	        "hw cursor" "on"
	BusID		"PCI:1:0:0"
	Screen      0
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier	"Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G400 AGP second head"
	Driver		"mga"
	Option	        "AGPMode" "4"
	Option	        "hw cursor" "on"
	BusID		"PCI:1:0:0"
	Screen      1
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier	"CM772"
	HorizSync	31-115
	VertRefresh	50-160
	Option		"DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier	"Default Screen"
	Device		"Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G400 AGP"
	Monitor		"CM772"
	DefaultDepth	24
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth		24
		Modes		"1600x1200" 
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "Proview"
	VendorName   "Unknown"
	ModelName    "Unknown"
	HorizSync    30.0 - 64.0
	VertRefresh  50.0 - 100.0
	Option	    "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen1"
	Device     "Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G400 AGP second head"
	Monitor    "Proview"
	DefaultDepth     24
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth     24
		Modes    "1024x768"
	EndSubSection
EndSection


Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier	"Default Layout"
	Screen      0   "Default Screen" RightOf "Screen1" 
	Screen		"Screen1" 0 0
	InputDevice	"Generic Keyboard"
	InputDevice	"Configured Mouse"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
	Option	    "Xinerama"
EndSection


Section "DRI"
	Mode	0666
EndSection

#End of file

br,
/Magnus



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Magnus Runesson <mr-ubuntu at linuxalert.org>
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