Matrox G400 drivers needed

Liam Proven lproven at gmail.com
Thu May 26 16:53:14 UTC 2011


On 25 May 2011 23:38, Yorvyk <yorvik.ubunto at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 25 May 2011 13:52:53 -0500
> Jon Anderson <jbander at izoom.net> wrote:
>
>> I need the drivers for a matrox G400 for ubuntu 11,04, can someone help
>> me out?
>> Thank you. I'm running a Emachine t3104 ,AMD sampron 3100 with 1 gig ram
>> Jon
>>
> It should already be installed
> :~$ apt-cache policy xserver-xorg-video-mga
> xserver-xorg-video-mga:
>  Installed: 1:1.4.13.dfsg-3build1
>  Candidate: 1:1.4.13.dfsg-3build1
>  Version table:
>  *** 1:1.4.13.dfsg-3build1 0
>        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main i386 Packages
>        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

At least in the old days when I used to use it, the G400 worked out of
the box, but if you wanted multihead - which I did, it is why I used
Matrox cards, since NT4 in 1996 - you needed the binary drivers.

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