The installation worked, the 2D display worked
but I would get a total machine lockup when I tried to display 3D
animations from either gnome-screensaver or xscreensaver.
I gave up at this point.
Fred:
I stiil haven't tried the matroxfb_base approach.
Are there some step by step instructions (for the compiling impaired people like me)?
Without matroxfb using a framebuffer just prevents X from starting.
I tried the mga driver posted above by Paulo J. S. Silva. www.ime. usp.br/ ~pjssilva/ xserver- xorg-video- mga_1.4. 2.dfsg. 1-1_i386. deb
with a g400 agp.
i.e.
http://
The installation worked, the 2D display worked
but I would get a total machine lockup when I tried to display 3D
animations from either gnome-screensaver or xscreensaver.
I gave up at this point.
Fred:
I stiil haven't tried the matroxfb_base approach.
Are there some step by step instructions (for the compiling impaired people like me)?
Without matroxfb using a framebuffer just prevents X from starting.