From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263915AbTDWAFd (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Apr 2003 20:05:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263916AbTDWAFd (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Apr 2003 20:05:33 -0400 Received: from falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net ([207.217.120.74]:23488 "EHLO falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263915AbTDWAFc (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Apr 2003 20:05:32 -0400 Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 20:24:00 -0400 To: ed.sweetman@umich.edu, vandrove@vc.cvut.cz Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.5.68 state of matroxfb Message-ID: <20030423002400.GA221@rushmore> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i From: rwhron@earthlink.net Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I've been using the matroxfb drivers at ftp://platan.vc.cvut.cz/pub/linux/matrox-latest/ for the last 3 months with good luck. (G400, single monitor, using text console and X). Linux rushmore 2.5.68-mm1 #1 Sun Apr 20 19:45:04 EDT 2003 i686 unknown Besides the other 2.5.x changes for video/console documented by davej at http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/post-halloween-2.5.txt matroxfb wants "matroxfb" in the boot string, rather than "matrox". My current append directive for lilo includes: video=matroxfb:vesa:depth:32,fh:115,fv:92,xres:1920,yres:1440,left:392,right:124 But don't use that string, as most monitors cannot handle it. It happens to be for a ViewSonic PF815. (other than "fb" in "matroxfb", the same string is what I was using with 2.4.x). Perhaps it's easier for Petr to maintain matroxfb outside Linus' tree at the moment. I'm glad he keeps putting his patches up. -- Randy Hron http://home.earthlink.net/~rwhron/kernel/bigbox.html