Well...
I have a G450 card (pretty good card) and I ran into exactly the same problem.
But I didn't have to rebuild a kernel to solve the problem. What I actually
did was to update the Matrox driver that comes with XFree 4.0.3 to the driver
provided by Matrox on their website. It's pretty easy to do, but be careful,
they have the same name.
On the framebuffer problem, I think that might be related to something like
mplayer. Mplayer allows you to use the TVout of the G450 card (for exemple to
watch DVDs on your TV), this being unsupported in the current Matrox driver
(why ? I have no idea).
Best regards,
David Garnier
Quoting David List
On Thursday 01 November 2001 06:42, dep wrote:
On Wednesday 31 October 2001 21:28, Jon Pennington wrote: | The first thing that comes to mind is the kernel configuration, | actually. Had your kernel been built with no frame buffer support | but only the standard 386/VGA console, I don't think this would be | an issue. If I were a betting man, I'd bet that the solution is to | disable MGA framebuffer support altogether.
bingo! right answer! they had framebuffer support enabled in the kernel configuration for some insane reason. burning a kernel without it solved the problem. (this is gonna make life *really* interesting for people with g-400 cards who decide 7.3 is the time to give suse a try. what a friggin' disaster.)
Are the SuSE people listening here? How about building a kernel that actually works with Matrox G400 cards. And do not forget to make a 2.4-SMP version also! Best regards, David List
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