DSL Tips and Tricks :: Matrox G200 quad card and XFree86



Might be useful for anyone else wanting to use a matrox g200 quad monitor pci card with dsl - this is what I did to get it working:

download the XFree86.dsl and copy it into the backup device so its there on restart.

download the mga_drv.o and mga_drv_hal.o drivers from the matrox site:

http://www.matrox.com/mga/support/drivers/latest/home.cfm

copy them both to:

/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers

get the busid's for the card by using lspci

then edit:

/etc/X11/XF86Config-4

to something like this (set for 3 screens):

Section "ServerLayout"
  Identifier "XFree86 Configured"
  Screen "Screen2" LeftOf "Screen0"
  Screen "Screen0" LeftOf "Screen1"
  Screen "Screen1"
  InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
  InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
  Option "Xinerama" "on"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
 DontZap
 AllowMouseOpenFail
EndSection

Section "Files"
#   RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
#   ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
#   FontPath "unix/:7100"
       FontPath        "unix/:7100"                    # local font server
       # if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these
       FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
       FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
       #FontPath       "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
       FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
       FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
       FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID"
       FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
       #FontPath       "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
       FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"

EndSection


Section "Module"
       Load  "dbe"
       Load  "extmod"
#       Load  "fbdevhw"
       Load  "dri"
       Load  "glx"
       Load  "record"
       Load  "freetype"
       Load  "type1"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
  Identifier "Keyboard0"
  Driver "keyboard"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
  Identifier "Mouse0"
  Driver "mouse"
  Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
  Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
  Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
  Identifier "Monitor1"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
  Identifier "Monitor2"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
  Identifier "Monitor3"
EndSection

Section "Device"
  Identifier "Card1_1"
  VendorName "Matrox"
  BoardName "MGA G200"
  Driver "mga"
  BusID "PCI:2:0:0"
  Option "HWcursor" "on"
  Option "MGASDRAM"
EndSection

Section "Device"
  Identifier "Card1_2"
  VendorName "Matrox"
  BoardName "MGA G200"
  Driver "mga"
  BusID "PCI:2:4:0"
  Option "HWcursor" "on"
  Option "MGASDRAM"
EndSection

Section "Device"
  Identifier "Card1_3"
  VendorName "Matrox"
  BoardName "MGA G200"
  Driver "mga"
  BusID "PCI:2:8:0"
  Option "HWcursor" "on"
  Option "MGASDRAM"
EndSection


Section "Screen"
  Identifier "Screen0"
  Device "Card1_1"
  Monitor "Monitor1"
  DefaultDepth 24

  SubSection "Display"
     Depth 24
     Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
  EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
  Identifier "Screen1"
  Device "Card1_2"
  Monitor "Monitor2"
  DefaultDepth 24

  SubSection "Display"
     Depth 24
     Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
  EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
  Identifier "Screen2"
  Device "Card1_3"
  Monitor "Monitor3"
  DefaultDepth 24
 
  SubSection "Display"
     Depth 24
     Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
  EndSubSection
EndSection

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(the: Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" - enables the mouse scroll wheel/middle button)


edit /home/dsl/.xserverrc

comment out the existing exec /usr/bin/X11/Xvesa... line and add:

exec /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 -nolisten tcp

so that the system used XFree86 on restart

then just edit the /home/dsl/filetool.lst to add the following so they're backed up/restored:

/etc/X11/XF86Config-4
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/mga_drv.o
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/mga_hal_drv.o
Thanks for the info

original here.