From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 27 13:13:56 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 2988037B401 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 13:13:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailout05.sul.t-online.com (mailout05.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.82]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EBB243EB2 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 13:13:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from garyj@jennejohn.org) Received: from fwd02.sul.t-online.de by mailout05.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 18dGZg-0000ls-04; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 22:13:48 +0100 Received: from peedub.jennejohn.org (520017439985-0001@[217.80.233.61]) by fmrl02.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 18dGZP-0hBEA4C; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 22:13:31 +0100 Received: from peedub.jennejohn.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by peedub.jennejohn.org (8.12.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h0RLD5Jj022611; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 22:13:27 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from garyj@peedub.jennejohn.org) Message-Id: <200301272113.h0RLD5Jj022611@peedub.jennejohn.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.3 To: "local.freebsd.questions" Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Matrox support for XFree86 on FreeBSD Reply-To: Gary Jennejohn In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 27 Jan 2003 18:26:37 GMT." <2F03DF3DDE57D411AFF4009027B8C3670289D6FB@exchange-uk.isltd.insignia.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 22:13:05 +0100 From: Gary Jennejohn X-Sender: 520017439985-0001@t-dialin.net 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 "local.freebsd.questions" writes: > >******************************************************** > >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. > It's not a driver, it's a moduke for X and apparently is pretty much OS independent. > 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. > I don't know about the G400, but's it's the only way I can use the DVI output on my G550. I can't address the other questions. --- Gary Jennejohn / garyj@jennejohn.org gj@freebsd.org gj@denx.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message