Matrox G450 support in XFree 4.0.3?
Ewald Jenisch
Does anybody know whether the Matrox G450 32MB is supported in XFree
4.0.3? Don't need dualhead etc. however.
BTW, I'm running Redhat 7.1.
Thanks much in advance,
-ewald
Michael Kropfberger
>
> Hi,
>
> Does anybody know whether the Matrox G450 32MB is supported in XFree
> 4.0.3? Don't need dualhead etc. however.
yes it works, with 4.0.1, 4.0.3, and the newest 4.1.0
also with dualhead (XINERAMA) and the overlay mode...
bye,
Mike
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Stefan Boresch
> Does anybody know whether the Matrox G450 32MB is supported in XFree
> 4.0.3? Don't need dualhead etc. however.
I may be wrong about this, but I believe vanilla XFree supports
the G450 only starting with verion 4.1. HOWEVER, just get the hallib
from Matrox' site (look under drivers) and then the g450 should
work beautifully. Hardware 3D accel (aka DRI) works nicely as
well!
Stefan
PS: It could be that RH 7.1 has a modified XFree with a built
in Hallib; that I don't know since I don't use RH 7.1.
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Andreas Parsch
> I may be wrong about this, but I believe vanilla XFree supports
> the G450 only starting with verion 4.1.
My G450 is working flawlessly (single monitor) with XFree 4.0.3. It _didn't_
work with 4.0.1, however.
Andreas
Ron Reeder
Cool, but guys - Could you be a little specific about HOW you got
it to work?
Which configuration tool (if any)
Xconfigurator does seem to know anything about dual heads.
(Xconfigurator is RedHat's tool)
And with RH 7.1 and XFree 4.0.3 when I ran XFree86 -configure
I would get link errors out of the video routines.
Did you obtain ANY software from Matrox - and if so which bits?
- hal lib
- beta mga driver
- desktop utility and configurator.
A sample of the "Device" definitions from /etc/X11/XFConfig-4 would be nice.
Thanks in advance.
Seperatly, Has anyone got dual head to work with differing graphics cards?
like an i810 and a Matrox G200, for example.
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Chris Selivanow
>
> Ewald Jenisch <e.je...@mobilkom.at> writes:
>
> > Does anybody know whether the Matrox G450 32MB is supported in XFree
> > 4.0.3? Don't need dualhead etc. however.
>
> I may be wrong about this, but I believe vanilla XFree supports
> the G450 only starting with verion 4.1. HOWEVER, just get the hallib
> from Matrox' site (look under drivers) and then the g450 should
> work beautifully. Hardware 3D accel (aka DRI) works nicely as
> well!
>
The Xfree86 that comes with Debian (Woody) with work fine if you
only want to use a single monitor (the hallib is supplied), however,
to be able to reliably use dual monitors I needed to get the mga_drv.o
binary from Matrox's website (otherwise my second head wouldn't run
at 1600x1280)
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Andreas Parsch
>
> Cool, but guys - Could you be a little specific about HOW you got
> it to work?
>
> Which configuration tool (if any)
> Xconfigurator does seem to know anything about dual heads.
> (Xconfigurator is RedHat's tool)
"Sax2" tool which comes with SuSE 7.1 - worked w/o a problem.
>
> And with RH 7.1 and XFree 4.0.3 when I ran XFree86 -configure
> I would get link errors out of the video routines.
>
> Did you obtain ANY software from Matrox - and if so which bits?
No.
>
> A sample of the "Device" definitions from /etc/X11/XFConfig-4 would be
> nice.
>
This is from /etc/X11/XF86Config (SuSE's X config file):
Section "Device"
BoardName "MGA G450"
Driver "mga"
Identifier "Device[0]"
Screen 0
VendorName "Matrox"
EndSection
Nothing special, as far as I can see.
HTH
Andreas
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> Andreas Parsch wrote:
>>
>> Stefan Boresch wrote:
>> > I may be wrong about this, but I believe vanilla XFree supports
>> > the G450 only starting with verion 4.1.
>>
>> My G450 is working flawlessly (single monitor) with XFree 4.0.3. It _didn't_
>> work with 4.0.1, however.
>>
>> Andreas
> Cool, but guys - Could you be a little specific about HOW you got
> it to work?
> Which configuration tool (if any)
> Xconfigurator does seem to know anything about dual heads.
> (Xconfigurator is RedHat's tool)
That's not too surprising... In most cases, getting dualhead working
requires a little bit of mucking around in your config file :-)
> And with RH 7.1 and XFree 4.0.3 when I ran XFree86 -configure
> I would get link errors out of the video routines.
Remove the glide_drv.so file from /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers
(assuming you don't plan on using a Voodoo2 as a 2D card in your
machine).
That's what fixed it for me.
> Did you obtain ANY software from Matrox - and if so which bits?
> - hal lib
You need it for dualhead with the G400, and for added functionality like
TV-out. However, for the G450, I don't believe you need the hal library
for dualhead with Matrox most recent beta driver. It can't hurt to have
it anyway.
> - beta mga driver
Yes.
> - desktop utility and configurator.
I did grab the powerdesk utility (I think that's what it's called), but
I've never really used it.
> A sample of the "Device" definitions from /etc/X11/XFConfig-4 would be nice.
Section "Device"
Identifier "G400_1"
VendorName "matrox"
Driver "mga"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Option "AGPMode" "1"
VideoRam 32768
Screen 0
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "G400_2"
VendorName "matrox"
Driver "mga"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
# Option "TV" "yes"
# Option "DigitalScreen" "yes"
# Option "TVStandard" "PAL"
# Option "CableType" "SCART_RGB"
# Option "CableType"
# "SCART_COMPOSITE"
# Option "CableType" "SCART_TYPE2"
Screen 1
EndSection
> Thanks in advance.
No problem... If you need more, drop me an e-mail.
> Seperatly, Has anyone got dual head to work with differing graphics cards?
> like an i810 and a Matrox G200, for example.
Yep. Radeon/GeForce, Voodoo3/TNT2, Permedia2/Voodoo3,
GeForce2/Permedia2, G400/GeForce (in a triple head setup one very bored
wednesday night), and a couple other combinations :-)
Adam
Mik Mifflin
recompilerd XFree86 4.0.2 with them. X works, but there is no harware
acceleration. I use the mga and the dri modules. In
/var/log/XFree86.0.log it says direct rendering enabled. I am stumped
beyond that point.
- Mik Mifflin
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> I'm having a similar problem. I downloaded the drivers from Matrox, and
> recompilerd XFree86 4.0.2 with them. X works, but there is no harware
> acceleration. I use the mga and the dri modules. In
> /var/log/XFree86.0.log it says direct rendering enabled. I am stumped
> beyond that point.
In a terminal window type:
$ export LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose
Then start up a small GL app (ie. the gears demo)... The first few
lines should be some debugging info.
Adam
Mik Mifflin
The things that are REALLY slow are tuxraces, the cart racing one, and
such. I want to get these working (mostly out of curiousity). Also,
because I want to do some things like that, but they run at about 3 seconds
per frame (yeah, you read that correcty). How do I find out libs these
programs use so I can start looking?
- Mik Mifflin
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> No, nothing unusual here. I got almost 60fps and no debugging messages.
Then the libGL on your system isn't DRI capable... Did you (or you
distribution) install Mesa after installing XFre86?
Adam
Aniartia
> Hi,
>
> Does anybody know whether the Matrox G450 32MB is supported in XFree
> 4.0.3? Don't need dualhead etc. however.
>
> BTW, I'm running Redhat 7.1.
perfectly on 4.0.3 & 4.1.0..
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>I'm having a similar problem. I downloaded the drivers from Matrox, and
>recompilerd XFree86 4.0.2 with them. X works, but there is no harware
>acceleration. I use the mga and the dri modules. In
>/var/log/XFree86.0.log it says direct rendering enabled. I am stumped
>beyond that point.
It's a *bitch*. You need:
latest'n'greatest kernel with agp compiled in or compiled as a module
mga as a module (to be replaced)
an mga module current enough (not included with 2.4.4); I forget where I
got it, I think I got it via CVS from xfree86.org
reduce your mem usage by 16M and set the agp appature to 16M
use the latest'n'greatest xfree86 (4.1)
32 bit frame buffer; 24 bit DRI buffer
To save you some hastles, I can e-mail as attachments all the files you'll need
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> On Thu, 12 Jul 2001 21:58:41 -0400, Mik Mifflin <dogan...@ctel.net> wrote:
>>I'm having a similar problem. I downloaded the drivers from Matrox, and
>>recompilerd XFree86 4.0.2 with them. X works, but there is no harware
>>acceleration. I use the mga and the dri modules. In
>>/var/log/XFree86.0.log it says direct rendering enabled. I am stumped
>>beyond that point.
> It's a *bitch*. You need:
> latest'n'greatest kernel with agp compiled in or compiled as a module
> mga as a module (to be replaced)
> an mga module current enough (not included with 2.4.4); I forget where I
> got it, I think I got it via CVS from xfree86.org
> reduce your mem usage by 16M and set the agp appature to 16M
If his log file says that Direct Rendering Enabled that means that all
the above has been done...
> use the latest'n'greatest xfree86 (4.1)
Not necessary, though recommended.
> 32 bit frame buffer; 24 bit DRI buffer
Definately not necessary. 16 bit gives noticably faster framerates.
> To save you some hastles, I can e-mail as attachments all the files you'll need
The problem, as I mentioned in a previous post, seems to be that the
libGL on his system is DRI capable.
Adam
Mik Mifflin
latest and reinstall it? Is there anything I must define at compile time?
- Mik Mifflin
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> I am using SuSE 7.1 pro, and yes mesa is installed. Should I get the
> latest and reinstall it? Is there anything I must define at compile time?
Definately no! Mesa is not DRI capable unless it's built from the DRI
source tree. Run ldconfig -p and see what libGL libraries you have
installed.
Adam
Mik Mifflin
There are also a ton more listed by the command you gave.
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> I have amny libGL libraries installed, as well as a few libGLU libraries.
> There are also a ton more listed by the command you gave.
Well, that's not good :-)
Most likely, the apps you're running are linking against a Mesa version
of libGL. You said you compiled XFree86 from source, right? Do you
still have the source? If so, remove libGLs from /usr/X11R6/lib/ and
/usr/lib/ and then reinstall XFree86.
Actually, instead of removing them all, if you can find out which libGLs
came from the mesa distribution (using rpm) you can just delete those.
The.Central.Scru...@invalid.pobox.com
>The problem, as I mentioned in a previous post, seems to be that the
>libGL on his system is DRI capable.
>
Delete every trace; and reinstall XF4.1.
Wayne Osborn
<spa...@genasis.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> Ewald Jenisch wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Does anybody know whether the Matrox G450 32MB is supported in XFree
>> 4.0.3? Don't need dualhead etc. however.
>>
>> BTW, I'm running Redhat 7.1.
> If it isn't I'm working on mirricals cause I've got 4 machines running
> perfectly on 4.0.3 & 4.1.0..
>
> Ani
>
I am running the Matrox driver in XFree86 4.0.3:
http://matrox.com/mga/support/drivers/latest/home.cfm
Using dual-head.
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