Installing Matrox drivers on Suse 11.2

[VJ]

Hello,

I just installed a Suse 11.2 on my old system, and am trying to install the matrox display drivers. Compilation works, but the installation then fails with this:

 Compiling mtx.ko ... done.

 Installing mtx.ko ...
 Backing up libGL     
 Installing 32bits OpenGL library file to /usr/lib
 Installing libGL.so.1.3.0 ...                    
 Installing the GLX library file to /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions

 Installing libglx.so ...
 Installing the gl.h header file to /usr/include/GL

 Installing gl.h ...
 Installing the glext.h header file to /usr/include/GL

 Installing glext.h ...
 Installing the glx.h header file to /usr/include/GL

 Installing glx.h ...
 Updating library cache

 Installing documentation

cp: cannot stat `v4l': No such file or directory
 Installing powerdesk

 Installing mtxcards ...
 Installing mtxwizard ...
 Installing matroxconfig ...
 Installing libmtxcfg.so ...
 Do you wish to let the installer setup your X config file  (y/n)? y

 ERROR: Could not setup your X config file (unknown_location).
        Verify that the file is valid.

 Installation finished

Nevertheless, I tried to run matroxconfig:

Xlib:  extension "MTXCFG" missing on display ":0.0".
Extension MTXCFG cannot be found
You must have a server layout section filled with input devices.

Any thoughts?

Thanks!


Jörg

[exMotraxUser]

Suse 11.2 no longer has an xorg.conf. It uses kind of auto config.
I had a similar problem configuring multi display with nvidia-settings.
Go to /etc/X11 and type "touch xorg.conf" to create an empty xorg.conf file. Then try to install again.

Cheers

exMotraxUser

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[VJ]

The same result...
(I am running the script as root)

[cjolley]

Is there a log file somewhere so you can figure out what "v41" is?

[Marshmallowman]

i think "v4l" is "video for linux" stuff, eg video capture/tv tuner system

[cjolley]

This might lead somewhere:

http://forums.opensuse.org/applications/multimedia/423285-how-update-v4l-dvb.html

[VJ]

Thanks!
I've been more looking into my raid-controller problem, as I really need it to work... it may be a reason to change distributions over.

Jörg

[VJ]

No luck in getting the raid controller to work in either Suse 11.2 or FreeBSD 8.0... It has drivers for lower versions though, so either it is back to Windows, or try an older linux distribution...