[svlug] Installing video drivers in Debian

[Jason Shupe]

I think the matrox site says somewhere about replacing mga_drv.o that
came with XFree86 with the one from them...

On my mandrake 7.2 system mga_drv.o is in

	/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/mga_drv.o

locate or find should help you find it on your system if it's not
there...

And just in case you should make a backup copy before overwriting the
original mga_drv.o...

After replacing it you have to restart X...

Cheers,
Jason

p.s. I'm a Green from Southern CA, and I use linux because computing
doesn't have to suck(tm)...
 
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 01:07:00AM -0700, Reg Charney wrote:
> I just purchased a Matrox Millenium G450 DDR 32mb Dual Head AGP video
> card. I also got a Linux driver, mga_drv.o, from the Matrox site. The
> site had no documentation on installing Linux video drivers. I have
> looked at the HOWTOs and the mini-HOWTOs to see how to install this
> driver. I have also read the documentation that came with an old version
> of Debian Gnu Linux. Nowhere is there an indication of how to make this
> driver part of the xf86config program.
> 
> The general question is: how does one install a new video driver under
> Linux/Debian.
> 
> TIA. Reg.