[H-GEN] XF86 and Matrox G200 probs

Andrae Muys a.muys at mailbox.uq.edu.au
Sun Jul 11 21:40:20 EDT 1999


(Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs Andrae Muys <a.muys at mailbox.uq.edu.au>)

On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Robert Stuart wrote:

> (Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs Robert Stuart <rstu at qbssss.edu.au>)
> 
> Hi,
> 
> We have some new HP Vectra VEi PII-400 PCs with Matrox MGA-G200 cards
> onboard.  I'm trying to get XFree86 working with the SVGA server, but it
> doesn't want to work.  I'm using a decent HP monitor (putting in the
> freq ranges in the XF86config file etc) which will do 1280x1024 @60Hz
> but when trying to run X, the refresh rate is either crap, or the
> monitor turns off (it one of those monitors that goes into standby when
> a video mode is no good).  
> 
> I'm suspecting the G200 card isn't properly supported by the XFree86
> server and it is picking some wierd mode clock which screwes up the
> monitor timings....
> 
> Does anyone have one of these new HP PCs (Vectra VEi8) and have X
> working?
> 
I have a clone box from Complete that contains a G200 and works great.  I
am very very happy with the G200 and haven't had any trouble at all
getting it to work.  Recently our department upgraded all it's PC's (Y2K
requirement) and used G200's.  No problems there either.

What X Server are you using?

[andrae at reynier pythondocs]$ rpm -q XFree86
XFree86-3.3.3.1-49

RedHat 6.0 even managed to autodetect it :).

Andrae

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