From: Michael Weller (eowmob@exp-math.uni-essen.de)
Date: Thu 02 Apr 1998 - 21:57:52 IDT
On Mon, 30 Mar 1998, Jordan =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=A0 ?= wrote: > I was wondering if anyone had Svgalib configured to work with the Matrox > Millenium II I can't seem to find anyone that has it configured > to work... Well please email me back or just post to the group... > Maybe there is a site with MMII SVGALib support.. No, there is no such site. Also, I don't think if I mentioned it on the list already, I was offered a nice system, but with a Matrox card, I asked Matrox for the necessary info to code such a driver. Well, like we say in Germany: No answer is also an answer. Anyway, you saw that somethign is done on a kind of vesa support. Well, to calrify terms here, it is still very difficult, if not impossible to call the vesa card's bios from linux. However, ARK wrote a DOS-tool which more or less automagically reverse engineers the BIOS by tracing all I/o calls it makes. It will not work in all cases, and he also still works a bit on that. But, at some point it might work for the matrox... or maybo not.. who knows? Honestly, my opinion on Matrox is: I did not take that otherwise good offer for a machine, and I'll never buy a Matrox product, actually, now where there are these 3d accelerators out, there are plenty of other choices (get a well working 2d card plus a seperate 3d accel, some of which are even supported by certain linux apps). If I were you, I'd return the card, next time buy one which is documented to be supported. Sorry, Michael. -- Michael Weller: eowmob@exp-math.uni-essen.de, eowmob@ms.exp-math.uni-essen.de, or even mat42b@spi.power.uni-essen.de. If you encounter an eowmob account on any machine in the net, it's very likely it's me.
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