Subject: Re: Matrox PowerDesk
To: Stefan Schumacher <stefan@net-tex.de>
From: ML <ml@rz.uni-potsdam.de>
List: port-i386
Date: 09/29/2003 00:33:43
Hello,

> > I just hacked Matrox' PowerDesk utility that comes with their XFree86 driver to work under NetBSD - I replaced all the direct I/O operations with calls to libpci. 
> > Whoever is intrested may download the tarball from http://macallan.homeunix.org/stuff/mgapdesk_netbsd.tar.gz
> > It works fine on my hardware ( G450 ), should run on NetBSD 1.6 or newer. 
> 
> After I realised that I have to install Matrox' X11 driver for mga
> it runs fine now on my 1.6W with a Matrox MGA G550 AGP.
> 
> X11 with 3200*1200 Pixel is really cool ;-)

Thanks :)
That's the first confirmation I got about it working with something else than a G450. I'm still not too sure about it ( after all it's just the result of an evening spent with a little hacking ) so any feedback in highly welcome.

have fun
Michael