Hi,

I'm running an x86 Matrox card in my 8600, and it "sort of" works
right now on 2.2.0.  It appears that there are definitely some kernel

To be honest I haven't tried this. I've been snowed under with work since
October :-(. The last thing I tried was building a 2.2pre6 kernel which
worked o.k. bar breaking my PPP connection. I didn't build the kernel
with matroxfb support though as I thought the less I experiment with the
better.

bugs as far as mode switching, as sometimes control and matrox end up
duplicating each other resulting in very funky displays.  I had to hack

This doesn't sound good. What exactly are you doing to achieve this?

the kernel slightly, in that it assumes if you have a Mac, well then you
must have a Mac matrox card, and OF should take care of initialization.
Nope, I've got a x86 card, and it has to be initialized by the kernel.
Simple one line hack in the init function for matroxfb.  

o.k. as far as I know Petr set things up so that under a Mac the card was
always initialised by OF - even for x86 cards (like my mystique and your
mil. I). The change is listed in Petr's readme/changes file. Petr can you
comment on this?

What I'll do is bring my kernel sources up to 2.2.0-final and try setting
up my Mystique again. Then let you know what happens.

On a realted note though, has anybody got a matrox card running under
pre-R5 with the XFree86, framebuffer stuff running? I'm still running R4
but once R5 is out I'll move over to XFree from XPmac.

Cheers

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