Matrox G200 quad card and XFree86

Forum: DSL Tips and Tricks
Topic: Matrox G200 quad card and XFree86
started by: safesys

Posted by safesys on Mar. 26 2006,22:26

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

Posted by cbagger01 on Mar. 28 2006,17:41

Thanks for the info