Matrox G550 driver source and AMD64

[Ryan Underwood]

I'm not dead.  2 more weeks of exams.

On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 08:02:00PM -0500, Alex Deucher wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 17:39:46 -0700, James Earl <james at icionline.ca> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I just recently built an AMD64 based system using an Asus A8V Deluxe
> > motherboard and a Matrox G550 graphics card.  I'm running FreeBSD
> > 5.3-RELEASE/amd64.
> > 
> > I have a slight issue in that I can't use Matrox's binary drivers any
> > longer now that I'm using FreeBSD amd64.  I did notice that Matrox
> > provides driver source (mgadriver-4.0-src.tar.gz).
> > 
> > Would it be possible to integrate this into X.org in future releases so
> > that the mga_hal_drv.o is no longer required to be downloaded from
> > Matrox?
> > 
> > ...or, is there anyway that I may be able to learn how to build this
> > mga_hal_drv.o myself if Matrox doesn't allow their sources to be bundled
> > with Xorg?
> 
> matrox does not provide the source to the HAL module.  the source you
> can download from their site is just a variation on the mga driver in
> the xorg/xfree86 trees.  All of the features supported in the HAL
> module are supported in the linux mga kernel mga fb driver.  Several
> people have been working on porting that feature set to xorg.  You can
> find the g400 specs on the web.  they should be useful for all g4/5xx
> chips.  the DVI and tv-out stuff would have to be ported from the
> kernel mga fb driver.
> 
> Alex
> 
> > 
> > James
> >
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