On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 02:08:51PM +0100, Pontus Edvardsson wrote: > I just bought myself a Matrox G550 (as G400 & G450 no longer seems to be > available).
You do have to hunt for them... but they're out there. Dealers here have
'em, but I opted for the G550 anyway. :)
> It has Linux support ofcourse, but I cannot seem to make X work in any
> higher resolutions than VGA (640x480) and SVGA (320x200)!!?
Well, it doesn't seem to be supported in the currently packaged mga driver
in Woody. The additions to the current open-source driver seem to be
trivial so I imagine they'll be included at some point. Look for something
like the following in your log file:
(II) MGA: driver for Matrox chipsets: mga2064w, mga1064sg, mga2164w,
mga2164w AGP, mgag100, mgag100 PCI, mgag200, mgag200 PCI, mgag400,
mgag550
(II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:00:0
(--) Chipset mgag550 found
(--) Chipset mgag550 found
If you don't see the 'mgag550' as a supported chipset, then you need to get
the updated driver. Matrox has a binary download of it, or if you're up to
it, you can modify the X source and build it yourself.
One you get it working, you'll love it. I run 1280x960x16bit dual-head and
the display quality is wonderful. :)
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