From: Panos Katsaloulis (teras@writeme.com)
Date: Mon 01 Feb 1999 - 22:49:17 IST
Στις Δευ, 01 Φεβ 1999, γράψατε: >Hello Panos, > >> I have a problem installing my Matrox Mystique card with svgalib. >> I tried to use VESA, but as soon as a program starts, I see the sceen >> flicker, I hear a strange sound and then I see a blank screen. > >I had no problems to get my Matrox Mystique to run with SVGALib >using VESA. > >I took the 1.3.1-Version, installed it at /usr/src/svgalib, I used the 1.4.1 version - should I draw back to 1.3.1? >did 'make install' and added the line > >' chipset VESA' > >at the 'chipset type' section. I did it. If I didn't do it, then the SVGAlib will start as VGA-compatible, not Matrox Mystique. I even upgraded with the lates BIOS from Matrox > >The only problem was: I had to start Linux unsing 'loadlin' from >plain DOS. Everytime I started it from W95 I got weird >error, saying things like 'mode was not found in ROM'... > I start Linux with lilo. Should I add something there? I don't understand what this has to do with svgalib :-(
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