Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 08:37:57 +0930 From: "Wilkinson, Alex" <alex.wilkinson@dsto.defence.gov.au> To: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help needed: connecting DVI TFT monitor to MGA G550 card Message-ID: <20050607230756.GF71217@squash.dsto.defence.gov.au> In-Reply-To: <d841ms$lj9$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> References: <200506032023.13511.c47g@gmx.at> <d841ms$lj9$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de>
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0n Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 11:50:52AM +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
>Christian Gusenbauer <c47g@gmx.at> wrote:
>
>> Hmm, it seems to be so simple: take a DVI cable, connect it with the monitor
>> and the G550 card, start FreeBSD (current), change some settings in the
>> xorg.conf file and then start X.
>>
>> Well, I failed miserably :-(.
>>
>> The only resolutions working are 800x600 and 640x480 but the 1280x1024 I'd
>> like to get does not work.
>
>I suffered a similar experience with a G450 PCI. It is my understanding
>that enabling high resolution modes on the DVI port requires some
>extra fiddling in the driver, but Matrox provides no documentation
>on this so XFree86/Xorg can't implement it. Unless you can use the
>proprietary drivers Matrox provides for some platforms, you're
>effectively stuck with the analog VGA port.
Use the drivers matrox provide for linux:
[http://www.matrox.com/mga/support/drivers/files/lnx_41.cfm]
Place mga_drv.o and mga_hal.drv.o into
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/. Make sure you back up Xorg's mga
drivers first though !
- aW
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