Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 22:13:05 +0100 From: Gary Jennejohn <garyj@jennejohn.org> To: "local.freebsd.questions" <freebsd-questions-local@insignia.com> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Matrox support for XFree86 on FreeBSD Message-ID: <200301272113.h0RLD5Jj022611@peedub.jennejohn.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 27 Jan 2003 18:26:37 GMT." <2F03DF3DDE57D411AFF4009027B8C3670289D6FB@exchange-uk.isltd.insignia.com>
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"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
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