On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 12:41:13AM +0200, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: > Hi all, > > now I'm trying to get a Matrox Millenium G450 up and running under X > (4.0.3). So far I have a more or less working solution with the > framebuffer device, but it's far from being satisfactory. > > When trying the mga driver, X complains: > (WW) Warning, couldn't open module mga_hal > (EE) MGA: Failed to load module "mga_hal"(module does not exist, 0) > (EE) MGA(0): G450 support not available without Matrox HAL module > and stops working. > > I got two drivers at the Matrox website, mga_hal_drv.o and > mga_drv.o. Both won't load with my kernel version (2.4.4) because of > 'unresolved symbols' in the driver files. The instructions at the > website didn't mention which kernel they used. These aren't kernel modules, but X modules, should be putted in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers...
then they should work great, at least they do for me > > Matrox has a source distribution for the drivers, too, but this > requires compiling X from the sources with the driver source copied > in, so that is not a very pleasant alternative. > > Has someone a solution or compiled the driver and is willing to share > the binary? -- ,-------------------------------------------. > Name: Alson van der Meulen < > Personal: [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > School: [EMAIL PROTECTED] < `-------------------------------------------' Yes, I chowned all the files to belong to pvcs. Is that a problem to you? ---------------------------------------------
