G400 unofficial driver - beta test version
Introduction
This is a G400 driver for BeOS R4.5+. If you find any problems please send me a bug report, but please check known bugs first.
Dualhead support is now included (see dualhead section below). This is even more likely to fry your card than ever, since Matrox declined to help:-(. That said, it has not fried mine (and I do not really expect it to), but if you use this it is at your own risk. Thanks go to Petr Vandrovec for figuring out how the MAVEN worked and letting me use his code.
New releases are announced on my website (also on BeBits):
foft.matroxusers.com
Requirements
- G400 with SGRAM or SDRAM
- X86 system running BeOS R4.5.0+, preferably R4.5.2+
Notes:
- R5 is required to compile it yourself, but it is an easy fix to build it on R4.5.
- The G100/G200 also work(ish!). Must reboot from another OS though to get acc working. Also colours are broken, less in 32-bit mode though.
- G450 support (single/dualhead)
- G550 support (untested)
Installation
- Make sure you have removed any old versions (in ~/config/add-ons/kernel/drivers/bin/)
- Extract zip file
- Double click install.sh
Dualhead support
In order to set dualhead modes you will need to download the DualHeadSetup program. This is similar to the screen preference panel, but it has several dualhead buttons. This is pretty nice now Seigers did some work on it:)
Bugs:-(
- G100, G200 have no acceleration unless you warm boot from another OS (e.g. linux using matroxfb)!
- G100, G200 show incorrect colours unless in 32-bit mode. In 32-bit mode the colours look like 6-bit/colour depth....
- Monitor mode colours screwed if you switch back from TVout mode without reboot (know how to fix, just no time! UPDATE: Got time now, but can't remember how to fix!!!)
- Poor modes on G450 (wavy screen)