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Matrox Millennium I + II (AGP) graphics device

Applies to

SuSE Linux: Version 3.2
XFree86: Versions since 4.4

This information was last updated on 11. january 1998

Important News !

Drivers for Matrox Millennium, Millennium rev3., Millennium II, Millennium II AGP, Mystique, Mystique rev.3 (220 MHz) :

Since november 1997, S.u.S.E. in cooperation with the XFree86 team provides a series of X servers. These support among others the graphics devices manufactured by Matrox. Further information is available in the following article of our support database :

Configuration of the S.u.S.E.-X-Server

Please also read the corresponding information on our WWW server (see http://www.suse.de/XSuSE/XSuSE_E.html).

Special notes :

Support for the Matrox Millennium is available for cards with 2,4 and 8 MB of memory, in all color depths (up to and including 32 bit), for all RAMDACs (i.e. for the 170MHz RAMDAC of the OEM version as well as the 220 MHz RAMDAC version) and for resolutions up to 1600x1200.

This functionality is contained in the SVGA server (package xsvga, series x in YaST).

Starting with XFree86 ver. 3.2A (beta), which corresponds to S.u.S.E. Linux 4.4.1, this X server is one of the fastes X servers at all (1 million XStones).

The new Matrox Millennium II is not supported by version 3.3 . However support is available since XFree86-3.3.1. This server is available via FTP as a RPM from ftp://ftp.suse.com/suse_update/xf86_331/rpm/xsvga.rpm or from ftp://ftp.suse.com/suse_update/xf86_331/tgz/xsvga.tgz in the TGZ format. Please note that it must still considered to be "experimental".

Important !

Since short time Matrox Millennium I cards with the Revision 3 chipset are on the market. Please expect errors such as striped areas and crashes of the X server with this card. No driver update is available up to now. Support for this type of card is available since XFree86-3.3.1 (in the S.u.S.E.-X-Server XSuSE_Matrox).

It is possible to identify this card by the output of the XFree86 server (see ~/.X.err):

(--) SVGA: PCI: Matrox MGA 2064W rev 3, Memory @ 0xffbec000
On the card itself a mark similar to the following can be found :
IS-MGA-2064W-R3

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See also:

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Keywords: MATROX, MILLENNIUM, GRAPHICS, DEVICE, MGA, X-SERVER, XFREE86, ACCELERATEDX, XACCEL, METRO-X, AGP

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Categories: Graphic cards , X Server

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