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From: Dave <dave@dave.tj>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Matrox Millenium Doesn't Work in Release 4, apparently :-(
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Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 14:19:42 -0400
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Thanks for sharing your experience.  Clearly, the G200 is compatible with
the G400/450.  The original Millenium, I'm almost sure, is not.  Also,
my Millenium is detected fine by vga.  It's just that the whole system
locks up when it tries to go into VGA mode.  If it'll help, I'll post the
vga.txt file from the floppy.  (Just tell me it will, and I'll post it.)

 - Dave


Sascha Wildner wrote:
>
> "Dave" <dave@dave.tj> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:200206260410.g5Q4AR503004@dave2.dave.tj...
> > I noticed that the Millenium was supported in Release 3, but I can't
> > seem to get it to work in Release 4.  That's rather unfortunate for me,
> > since the only other card I have is a Trident Blade 3D, which is totally
> > unsupported :-(
>
> To get my Millenium G200 AGP to work under R4 I had to edit the vgadb on
> the installation disk to include the following line:
>
> ctlr
> 0xC002D="MATROX/Matrox G400"
> 0xC002D="MATROX/Matrox G450"
> 0xC002D="MATROX/MGA-G200"       <----- this line added
> link=vga
> ctlr=mga4xx linear=1
> hwgc=mga4xxhwgc
>
> I used 1280x1024x8 as a display mode (it seems that the Matrox Driver cannot
> handle more than 8 bits per pixel; hey, when is this going to change?).
>
> After installation I had to copy the vgadb file manually over to the hard disk
> from the installation floppy because the installed file didn't include my
> modifications (seemed as if they copy over a fresh vgadb and not the one from
> the floppy).
>
> That was it for me, I hope it helps.
>
>
> Regards,
> Sascha
>