On Monday 24 September 2001 01:59 pm, Remco van de Meent wrote: > Oleksandr Moskalenko wrote: > > > Mine tries to load the mga_hal module and fails, presumably > > > because I haven't installed it. I take it you've downloaded the one > > > from matrox.com? What does it do? Also, FWIW, if you don't install > > > the matrox drivers, the 450 is only supported starting with X > > > 4.1.0. > > > > On my G400 mga_hal prevents dri from being enabled. I assume that's > > because mga_hal was compiled for ?4.0 and they haven't updated it for > > 4.1, yet. Everything seems to work beautifully WITHOUT any Matrox > > drivers even though mga_hal load failure message shows up in XFree86 > > log. Someone else posted similar experiences for their G450 on this > > list before, too. > > It works also with the mga_hal driver (downloaded from matrox.com) > loaded, after recompiling it on X version 4.1.0. On a system w/ G450 > that is.
I have DRI enabled, including, suprisingly, 3D support, even with mga_hal being loaded under X4.1 using the stock X mga driver. I, however, use a G400, so it's possible it's different for the G450. > > regards, > Remco.
