Mandrake 9.0 and Parhelia?

[leech]

I have successfully gotten the Parhelia drivers to work in debian (unstable, and updated with the 4.2.1 version of XFree86) but for some reason I can't get it to work in Mandrake 9.0. I switched to Mandrake simply because debian's unstable Gimp-print package is broken (at least for now) So I figured I'd give the final 9.0 a spin, and so far it runs nice ad fast, but I can't go into anything higher than 1280x1024x24 or there is MAJOR screen corruption. (there is some minor corruption in that 1280x1024 though). The kernel module is installed, it's just that it's not being 'used'.

[root@skint root]# lsmod |grep mtx
mtx 27000 0 (unused)

And dmesg shows;

[mtx] MTX Driver version 0.1.8
[mtx] AGP driver v0.99 on Intel i815
[mtx] 0x0527(sub:0xffffffff) board found at 01:00.0

/var/log/XFree86.0.log says;

(II) Loading sub module "parhl"
(II) LoadModule: "parhl"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/linux/libparhl.so
(II) Module Parhelia device driver: vendor="Matrox"
compiled for 4.2.0, module version = 0.1.8
Module class: XFree86 Video Driver
ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.5
(II) MTX(0): Using Parhelia library v.0.1.8 for graphics acceleration.
(--) Depth 24 pix

(WW) MTX(0): Cannot use Parhelia module for acceleration, device failed to open.map format is 32 bpp

Any ideas?

Leech

[Hefa]

Ups.. Just realised that your problem has nothing to do with my solution.. (damn I feel stupid..) hmm..
I had problems after I installed the matrox driver on mandrake 9.0, X wouldn't start at all, but I fixed it.. time for me to goto sleep.. sorry for this..


the original reply from me..

I resolved it by copying the mga_drv.o to right place by hand. The Matrox driver installscript doesn't install it because it thinks the correct version of the mga_drv.o ha been allready installed. (or something like that I don't know.. )

the steps I had to do
cd /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers
cp mga_drv.o mga_drv.o.backup
cd /root/mtxdrivers/xfree86/2.4.0/
cp mga_drv.o /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers
startx

hope this helps..

[leech]

I think you mean mtx_drv.o. mga_drv.o is for the older Matrox boards. Though I suppose if you changed the name of it to mga_drv.o X would use it if you chose "mga" as the driver (as it is by default for all Matrox cards (except Parhelia)). The problem I'm having is due to GCC3.2 being the main C compiler in Mandrake 9.0. And the mtx_drv.o is compiled with 2.95, so they aren't linked to the same libraries, and hence it doesn't 'use' the mtx.o kernel module to enable busmastering.

Leech

[Hefa]

yes.. I ment mtx_drv.o (damn..)

I have no clue what the hell I was thinking when I wrote that post..