On 23-Dec-98 Sean M Hollingsworth wrote: > I am (hopefully) putting a Matrox Millennium G200 AGP in my linux box > next month. I know that S.u.S.E has an Xserver for this card, but I can > only find tarballs and RPMs for it. I now have two questions: > > 1) Is there a deb of the Matrox Xserver? > > 2) In the event I can't find a deb, would installing the xserver from a > tarball or an RPM cause any problems with compatibility? Say with > updates, other libs, etc... >
SuSE just gives you a server, nothing else, simply place their binary with the other xservers (like vga16) and add a line to your /etc/Xserver for it. No big deal. Once we have a 3.3.3 package you wont need the SuSE supplied server.