It's alive!

[albatorsk]

Nope, that won't help. The files are, unfortunately, corrupted. We'll have to wait for matrox to upload them again.

[Chrono_Wanderer]

finally... a non-nV card with full OGL acceleration under Linux. that may somehow helps sales a bit

[albatorsk]

Uhm.. Don't get your hopes up just yet

From the README:

Known driver problems
=====================

- OpenGL apps freeze on SMP machines when run from a window manager. They
will run correctly if X is started from 'xinit' instead of 'startx'.

They still have some small quirks to work out, like getting it to work with a window manager (but nobody is using those anyway, right )

[leech]

Ok guys, don't know if this helps.... but the private ftp sites that the Cad guys sent me the link to, does have a tar.gz on there for the 'beta3' ones. Just not the 'beta4' (so called 'pro') yet. And that one ungzipped/tarred just fine, but of course since my 845PE isn't detected by the agpgart that I have with the 2.4.20 kernel installed..... then it just says "Mtx module loaded on AGP Unkown.... " or something like that. Damned the bad luck. AGPgart on this system recognizes the chipset as 845G, which I believe is an onboard graphics chipset, right?

Leech

[albatorsk]

The CAD-guys promised they would put up a tar-file of beta4, so I'll wait for that before gving it another try.

[leech]

Any guesses on wether or not this will work on non-RedHat Distros?

Leech

[albatorsk]

Well, I sure hope it will work on other distros. Nowhere on their site did it say that their Linux driver would be for RedHat only when I bought my card.

[WyWyWyWy]

Leech any chance you can share the beta3 .tar.gz?

[leech]

Originally posted by WyWyWyWy
Leech any chance you can share the beta3 .tar.gz?

Fair enough, but where would be a good mirror to download RH 9?

Leech

[KeiFront]

Are they still on the ftp? I can't find them, and I'm not keen on filling in the "Matrox Registration System" to get them .

[albatorsk]

No, you have to fill in the registration to get them. They are not on their regular FTP.

[Slougi]

Well, do they work???

[albatorsk]

Sort of. Still no Xvideo, still no TV-out and the drivers that support OpenGL doesn't work for me.

[leech]

according to xdpyinfo, XVideo is there.....

The problem I'm having, (and I've had this since upgraded my motherboard to a Asus P4PE) is that AGPgart keeps saying that my chipset is a I845G when it's a I845PE.

I'm installing Kernel 2.5.70 right now to see if I can get this to work right......

As of now, the mtx.o module isn't being 'used' which used to work when I had my Asus CUSL2 (I815E chipset.) Talk about pissing me off!

Leech

[WyWyWyWy]

Hey 845G and 845PE is exactly (exactly!) the same thing, except on board video. So don't you worry about it

Ben said you need to delete the libparhl.so too.

Now I am going to try some in RH8 and FreeBSD (yes FreeBSD!).
See how it goes.

You know, me 845PE too