On 5/4/05, Jenny Hopkins hopkins.jenny@gmail.com wrote:
Has anyone had a Matrox G450 working using the mga linux driver? I'm trying to avoid having to build the Matrox driver, but things aren't looking good.
I made great progress on this yesterday, upgraded to kernel 2.6, and finally got the two monitors working in a stretched mode in X (only as root, but I was working on it!). However, when I powered up the computer this morning, one of the monitors is not functioning. The back of the card has two sockets, one of which requires an adaptor from the second monitor. Whichever monitor is plugged into this socket has only the "No signal" message on the display.
If I have only one monitor plugged in to first socket, I get a single console display as normal. If I plug only one monitor in to the second, adaptor socket, I can work blind and get some very odd behaviour. As the bios would display, the "No signal" message moves slowly down the screen then returns to the centre and is still at what would be the LILO menu waiting for input. If I hit enter, the "No signal" message moves slowly UP as I would see the kernel boot text scrolling on screen, then remaining still after machine has booted.
I switched it off with both monitors working yesterday, and haven't touched or joggled the cables since.
I'm utterly baffled. Can anyone help?
Thanks, Jenny