Matrox drivers ..

[kane_of_nod]

Hello comrades =D

I installed Linux Mint 6 in a pc's friend... and he has a matrox graphic board.

How can I install the drivers so I can use 3D power of Compiz n' stuff ?

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I tried to install the driver.. it didnt work.. now what ? = \
what can I do ?


thanks =)

[merlwiz79]

Doesn't the xserver-xorg-video-mga work for the video driver?

[kane_of_nod]

how do I know ?

[kane_of_nod]

need some help here... plz

[AK Dave]

I would start here:

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lspci -nn

And then visit here:
http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/support/drivers/

[kane_of_nod]

I did it... same error..


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If this graphic board does not work.. I'll have to switch back to windows

[AK Dave]

I did it... same error..

I asked you to share the results of 'lspci -nn' and you got an error? I don't think so.

[kane_of_nod]

here

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lleiria@lleiria-desktop ~ $ lspci -nn
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/VN800/P4M800CE/Pro Host Bridge [1106:0314]
00:00.1 Host bridge [0600]: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/VN800/P4M800CE/Pro Host Bridge [1106:1314]
00:00.2 Host bridge [0600]: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/VN800/P4M800CE/Pro Host Bridge [1106:2314]
00:00.3 Host bridge [0600]: VIA Technologies, Inc. PT890 Host Bridge [1106:3208]
00:00.4 Host bridge [0600]: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/VN800/P4M800CE/Pro Host Bridge [1106:4314]
00:00.7 Host bridge [0600]: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/VN800/P4M800CE/Pro Host Bridge [1106:7314]
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237/VX700 PCI Bridge [1106:b198]
00:07.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ [10ec:8139] (rev 10)
00:08.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6306 Fire II IEEE 1394 OHCI Link Layer Controller [1106:3044] (rev 46)
00:0f.0 RAID bus controller [0104]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA RAID Controller [1106:3149] (rev 80)
00:0f.1 IDE interface [0101]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE [1106:0571] (rev 06)
00:10.0 USB Controller [0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller [1106:3038] (rev 81)
00:10.1 USB Controller [0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller [1106:3038] (rev 81)
00:10.2 USB Controller [0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller [1106:3038] (rev 81)
00:10.3 USB Controller [0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller [1106:3038] (rev 81)
00:10.4 USB Controller [0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 [1106:3104] (rev 86)
00:11.0 ISA bridge [0601]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge [KT600/K8T800/K8T890 South] [1106:3227]
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller [1106:3059] (rev 60)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA Parhelia AGP [102b:0527] (rev 03)
lleiria@lleiria-desktop ~ $ 

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[AK Dave]

Okay, so it is indeed an MGA Parhelia board.

Have you seen this:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=232909

[kane_of_nod]

that post its about the official drivers from matrox, the ones I used..

I dont know what to do anymore... I was wondering if the error was about something that was interfiering with the compiling process

[kane_of_nod]

I guess there is no resolution to my problem. I'm searching a lot at google, and nothing works... I dont want to get back to windows.. i'm loving Linux.. =/