From owner-freebsd-multimedia Fri Sep 27 10:44:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2CBD37B401 for ; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 10:44:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtpproxy2.mitre.org (smtpproxy2.mitre.org [192.80.55.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FDCA43E6E for ; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 10:44:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jandrese@mitre.org) Received: from avsrv2.mitre.org (avsrv2.mitre.org [128.29.154.4]) by smtpproxy2.mitre.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g8RHi7L16815; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 13:44:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from MAILHUB1 (mailhub1.mitre.org [129.83.20.31]) by smtpsrv2.mitre.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g8RHi5l15853; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 13:44:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mm112324-2k.mitre.org (128.29.105.142) by mailhub1.mitre.org with SMTP id 11693134; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 13:44:25 -0400 Message-ID: <3D9498D7.7747E63B@mitre.org> Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 13:43:51 -0400 From: Jason Andresen Organization: The MITRE Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en]C-20020130M (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Corey Holcomb-Hockin Cc: freebsd-multimedia Subject: Re: Fxtv crash References: <3D93E29D.9080702@ipeg.com> <20020927073934.0e2851c1.steve@sohara.org> <3D93F2FD.1020900@ipeg.com> <3D94561E.4CFF782D@mitre.org> <3D9493E0.3040108@ipeg.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Corey Holcomb-Hockin wrote: > > Jason Andresen wrote: > > >They are a compile option in the port. WITH_MATROX_GXX_DRIVER > > > >I don't think that's the problem though. The GXX drivers don't seem to > >do all that much. I've had them installed since they first appeared > >and I havn't noticed additional breakage or really all that many new > >features. I think the drivers are ment for G400s though, and I have > >a G200. > > > > > > > I have the XFree86 package that came with the 4.6.2 cd. I've never > tried to compile it from ports because I figured it would be a long > download and I'm on dialup. Does this options add the mga_hal module? Yes. setting that option causes X to be built with support for the MGA_HAL linux binary module. > When you mentioned official Matrox drivers I checked the matrox website > and found some linux drivers with source. I guess thats not what you > meant. Actually that is what I ment. Fortunatly FreeBSD and Linux are compatable in this area. > I also tried getting dri working by compiling agp into the kernel. > XFree86 still gives errors about not finding mga_hal, then disabling > dri. Are these things needed for dma with the wintv and if so where do > I get mga_hal? AGP support is only the first step, you need hardware support for your card as well. Recompiling X isn't so bad. It will take a while to download over the modem, but unless you pay per minute it won't be overly painful. If your ISP kicks you off for inactivity, you can start the compile before you go to bed and have it finished by morning. -- \ |_ _|__ __|_ \ __| Jason Andresen jandrese@mitre.org |\/ | | | / _| Network and Distributed Systems Engineer _| _|___| _| _|_\___| Office: 703-883-7755 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message