Re: X's with Matrox Millenium II

1998-04-29 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi Daniel, > > I'm a bit confused. Why should I bother looking up something in the > > archive that I wrote? Also, it wasn't me who asked. I was > > attempting to answer the question. Hence, you get another smiley face. > > :) > > Touche ... I think that I was confused when I wrote it, so don

Re: X's with Matrox Millenium II

1998-04-29 Thread dg
On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Ossama Othman wrote: > I'm a bit confused. Why should I bother looking up something in the > archive that I wrote? Also, it wasn't me who asked. I was > attempting to answer the question. Hence, you get another smiley face. > :) Touche ... I think that I was confused when

Re: X's with Matrox Millenium II

1998-04-28 Thread Ossama Othman
> So - a completely undebianized XFree installation isn't neccesary as you > have seen above. Yes and No. :) I've always felt it better to use a piece a of software with software it was intended to be used with; i.e. X332svga with X332*. Also, I've been told that XF86Setup and xf86config in X33

Re: X's with Matrox Millenium II

1998-04-28 Thread dg
On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Ossama Othman wrote: > Hi, > > It is amazing how often this question is asked on this List. Perhaps a > FAQ should be created that explains how to use a Millenium II with Debian > 1.3.1. :) Right - I have read about about five times. But only one answer of these five has s

Re: X's with Matrox Millenium II

1998-04-28 Thread Ossama Othman
Who said anything about simply unpacking them? :) The instructions I gave over a month ago were generic XF86 install instructions, including what was needed, what needed to be run and some Debian issues the user should be aware of. -Ossama _

Re: X's with Matrox Millenium II

1998-04-28 Thread Donald Harter Jr.
Here is the url for the Matrox Xfree86 development team: http://matrox.alloy.net/ You should follow their instructions when you install and not simply unpack the tar files. Donald Harter Jr. Ossama Othman wrote: > Hi, > > It is amazing how often this question is asked on this Lis

Re: X's with Matrox Millenium II

1998-04-28 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, It is amazing how often this question is asked on this List. Perhaps a FAQ should be created that explains how to use a Millenium II with Debian 1.3.1. :) >I have a Matrox Millenium II video card and Linux Debian 1.3.1. I >would like to install the X environment but so far I haven'

Re: X's with Matrox Millenium II

1998-04-28 Thread Ben Pfaff
I have a Matrox Millenium II video card and Linux Debian 1.3.1. I would like to install the X environment but so far I haven't been able of doing so. Is it possible to achieve this with this release of Debian ? No, not AFAIK. If so, how can I do it ? You should upgrade to Deb