topic ML 110 G4 Matrox Driver problem Linux in Operating System - Linux

ML 110 G4 Matrox Driver problem Linux

mikehebat — Thu, 31 May 2007 14:28:27 GMT

Hello,

About 2 months ago, my company bought 5 hp proliant 110 g4 servers.
When we tried to install Fedora Core 4 or 6, the x server wouldn't start. It complained that there was no suitable vga (matrox) driver. With Fedora 5, the X server started but blurred. When i tried installing the driver that came with the CD, i got error "couldn't find x server driver install path"

Whats wrong? Where can I get the suitable driver for these distros?

Thank you.

Re: ML 110 G4 Matrox Driver problem Linux

Ivan Ferreira — Thu, 31 May 2007 14:43:05 GMT

While searching for a perfect driver, you can try the VESA driver:

system-config-display --reconfig --set-driver=vesa

Re: ML 110 G4 Matrox Driver problem Linux

Van den Broeck Tijl — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 06:51:19 GMT

If you really need an accelerated X or any other special features (DRI, OpenGL, ...) then it depends upon which matrox card the proliants have.

If it's an MGA or parhelia, don't even think about trying the official binary drivers from matrox, go straight to http://www.tuxx-home.at and http://matrox.tuxx-home.at

Tuxx-home.at has modded and extended the matrox drivers to make sure they operate on recent linux kernels/Xorg's and distributions.