From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 27 10:26:51 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CC9137B401 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 10:26:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from highland.isltd.insignia.com (highland.isltd.insignia.com [195.74.141.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1847743E4A for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 10:26:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Jim.Hatfield@insignia.com) Received: from scorpio.isltd.insignia.com (scorpio.isltd.insignia.com [172.16.1.1]) by highland.isltd.insignia.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0RIQg5x038790 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 18:26:42 GMT (envelope-from Jim.Hatfield@insignia.com) Received: from exchange-uk.isltd.insignia.com (exchange-uk [172.16.1.6]) by scorpio.isltd.insignia.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id h0RIQg129346 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 18:26:42 GMT Received: by exchange-uk.isltd.insignia.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id <3949G97F>; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 18:26:41 -0000 Message-ID: <2F03DF3DDE57D411AFF4009027B8C3670289D6FB@exchange-uk.isltd.insignia.com> From: "local.freebsd.questions" To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Matrox support for XFree86 on FreeBSD Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 18:26:37 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.28 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yesterday while upgrading XFree86-Server from ports I saw the following, which I can't recall seeing before: >******************************************************** >Define WITH_MATROX_GXX_DRIVER to include Matrox's extra >"HALLIB" binary driver >******************************************************** And indeed it then pulled down drivers from the Matrox site and I see mga_hal is loaded in the X log. Amazing! I had thought that these drivers were for Linux only. The question immediately arises, in what way is XFree86 better with these drivers (on a G400) than the normal open-source drivers? If it's only enabling TV out then on a bog-standard G400 I won't see any benefit I guess. And is there any way I can persuade mplayer to allow me to use xmga or mga for output? It seems to look for a /dev/mga_vid which isn't present on FreeBSD. jim hatfield To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message