Video card support??

[PopcornBuzzard]

I've installed Red Hat 7.3 and can't get into X. I thought my video card was supported, but now I'm having second thoughts.

My video card: Matrox Millennium II - 8MB

Matrox web site says this card is NOT supported under Linux, but xFree86.org says it IS supported. I wonder which it is??

Also, when installing Red Hat, do the video card drivers for Linux normally get installed automatically?? Or do people normally go to the card manufacturer's web site and download the driver??

[aboringman]

Hi,
i've got the same videocard. The newer distributions have to configure it automatically, including the 3d-acceleration. Maybe you just have to use another method to start X...?
As an attachment i (try to) send you my xfree-configuration-file (lies in /etc/X11), compare the sections "module" and "graphics device" to your config.-file to determine, if the installation did it right.
Jochem

[PopcornBuzzard]

Thank you so much aboringman! I will look at your file and compare it to mine.

[Xsecrets]

The matrox meliniumII's are supported in linux and have been for quite a long time now. the reason matox says there is no support is because they do not directly suport it or provide a driver for it. but the driver in xfree86 sould work just fine with it. also note that this card has no 3d acceleration, at least not in the manner most people talk about today.

[PopcornBuzzard]

I've gotten it to work! Yay! I can get into X. Thanks, guys!

Here's what I ended up doing:
In both XF86Config & XF86Config-4, I did this:

Section "Files"
# FontPath "unix/:7100"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/default/TrueType"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/AbiSuite/fonts"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/ja/TrueType"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
EndSection


So I just ended up not using the font server at all (if I HAD used font server, I guess I would have only used the "FontPath 'unix/:7100'" line above). But instead, adding all these font paths worked!

So maybe it was actually a font server problem and not a video card prob after all.