From: Mark Szlaga (mszlaga@engin.umd.umich.edu)
Date: Tue 02 Feb 1999 - 01:02:10 IST
On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Michael Hunold wrote: > 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, > did 'make install' and added the line > > ' chipset VESA' > > at the 'chipset type' section. > > 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'... > > > Thanx > > Panos Katsaloulis > > CU, > Michael. > Greetings, Will this work with the matroxfb enabled? Or is there a way to get SVGAlib to cooperate with that? Right now I get graphics, but in a way that it is totally unusable. (i.e. line 1 is at left half of screen, line 2 is somewhere else.) If there is an easy fix could someone point me to that, otherwise TIA Mark -- Mark Szlaga mszlaga@umd.umich.edu http://www.umd.umich.edu/~mszlaga/ /dev/hdb5 - 0.5Gb of spinning metal, all alone in the night... - unknown - alt.sysadmin.recovery /dev/hdb5 - our last best hope for free space... - Chip Salzenberg - <chip@pobox.com>
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