New linux driver v1.1 Beta

[albatorsk]

It works for me (my card is on PCI 1:5:0). Are you using a 2.4.x? kernel? Is the kernel module loaded?

[leech]

It works now. I had to change the fontpath and of course the keyboard layout to US. But now it's working in beautiful Triple Head independant! Except that Gnome 2.4 apparently doesn't like it! I'm running KDE 3.2 CVS and it's running quite nicely. One thing bothers me though, I cannot get mouse gestures to work through KHotkeys! The mouse gestures stopped working under Galeon, so I started using Konqueror, but no luck there. This is pretty sweet though linux now has one huge advantage over windows

Leech

Edit, I've got Mouse Gestures working

So now the question is why does GDM and gnome hate triple-head so much??

[Mikko]

Thanks, albatorsk, for your config file!

I changed the fontpath and my mouse and keyboard settings
and now it works beautifully in triplehead independent mode!

[leech]

And to think, Matrox said it was impossible. Though I've noticed it's pretty buggy and unstable... I usually leave my computer on all the time, and it woke me up when I heard windows booting... Also I've noticed (at least under KDE) that the screensaver never turns on. If they can fix the issues, this will just plain rule!

Leech

[bsdgeek]

Wow... that's pretty cool, I'm surprised Matrox isn't advertising the hell out of it.

But was this really a hardware limitation in the first place or just something they disabled in Windows (perhaps because of Surround Gaming) ??? Even if for Surround Gaming, it wouldn't make sense to hold this back for the non-gamers. I've read that many people that didn't buy Parhelias/P750s because it was not independant.

Or is the XF86 method really different enough to just make it work?

[leech]

That's a good possibility. It's also quite possible that it had something to do with Stability. I've seen some issues so far with it. Though part of it could be that I'm running KDE CVS, but I know Gnome doesn't like it... Does gnome run ok under Dual-independant?

Leech

[K6-III]

How do I install this driver under Xandros 2.0? For whatever reason, it tells me that it doesn't want to compile for my kernel (2.4.22) and that my kernel is not supported.

Perhaps I can get help here before Matrox opens on Monday...

[K6-III]

Also kinda weird how Xandros detects Parhelia properly, but sets it up by default with G550 drivers...

[Gerald_Maricau]

Originally posted by K6-III
How do I install this driver under Xandros 2.0? For whatever reason, it tells me that it doesn't want to compile for my kernel (2.4.22) and that my kernel is not supported.

Perhaps I can get help here before Matrox opens on Monday...

First you have to install the kernel source of your distribution, did you ?

Then you have to go to the directory /usr/src/linux (or the linux-release-of-kernel)

cd /usr/src/linux

then type

make cloneconfig
make dep

and then you should be able to install the matrox driver.

tar -zxf mtx*.tar.gz
cd mtx*
sh ./install.sh

and follow the instructions.

<b>That's what i did when using SuSE 8.0 and it worked</b> !

Somebody have any idea why it doesn't work with SuSE 9.0. I''ve attached the content of the XFreelog file and my config file at http://forums.murc.ws/showthread.php...521#post444521
and other information ...

http://forums.murc.ws/showthread.php?postid=444641#post444641

[leech]

Originally posted by K6-III
Also kinda weird how Xandros detects Parhelia properly, but sets it up by default with G550 drivers...

How is Xandros 2? I was tempted to give it a try, but I dont' want to mess up my Libranet install and then just end up having to rebuild it...

Leech

P.S. Keep us up to date if you can get it working under Xandros 2. I was going to just try it under a virtual machine before I take the big step....

[K6-III]

For whatever reason, make cloneconfig doesn't work for me.

I'll keep you all updated as to how it works.

[Gerald_Maricau]

Originally posted by K6-III
For whatever reason, make cloneconfig doesn't work for me.

I'll keep you all updated as to how it works.

I don't know why you can't make cloneconfig, but i think that the kernel sources isn't good installed.
Give it a try to type

cd /usr/src/linux

in a terminal under X

make xconfig

or in a ASCII terminal

make menuconfig

Don't save it, or only if you really intended to recompile your kernel and know what option to select.


that's only to see if you can select thinks to recompile the kernel

If so, the kernel source should be installed.

Is there a menu appearing ?

[leech]

And of course don't forget to install libncurses5-dev for menuconfig and it's missing wish by default....

To get the config over to the sources, just 'cp /boot/config-2.4.22-x1 /usr/src/linux/.config'

After doing that, you have to go into /usr/src/linux/include/linux/ and modify version.h to match your kernel. (In this case just add -x1 to the end, so it looks like;

#define UTS_RELEASE "2.4.22-x1"

Then you have to do a make menuconfig, then just exit out, so it creates the proper build files. Then do a make dep. That SHOULD be it. (got the vmware modules to work after that.) Good luck, and let us know how it works.

Leech

[K6-III]

I installed the Kernel Source via Xandros Networks, so I figured it should work.

Let me check your suggestion when I get home from work...

[Gerald_Maricau]

Problem when upgrading to SuSE 9.0

I've have problem when using the new driver on SuSE 9.0 kernel 2.4.21

My error file: