Guys, I'm new here and hoping for some help on a new Suze 7.2/3 install. Please?

I've got a vanilla suze 7.2 and 7.3 install with a Matrox G200mms card and 4 monitors. When I boot the system it seems to cycle the monitors twice each with a light grey background before coming up OK. However the mouse only works on screen0 not 1, 2 or 3. I can drag a window onto the other screens but the colours are screwed and the cursor vanishes.

If I then restart X (CTRL ALY BACKSP) the screens come up quick and mouse works on all 4 screens.

Could it be that one version of X runs on bootup and one on a restart? If so how do I found out what uses what?

Using the G200 PCI driver that comes with 7.2 and 7.3

I know there is an updated Matrox driver but it does not install from the supplied script - install.sh

HELP Please.

Neil.

mgapdesk is a pretty brilliant utility as far as vendor utilities go. It choked for me on X 4.2.1, so I just hand copied the mga_XXX.o modules... er, there are 3, over the default ones in XFree86. The mga_hal_drv.o has no parrallel as that's what allows for screen merge and a bunch of other fun stuff. If you backup those three ahead of time and it doesn't work, you should be no worse off then where you started. It worked great for my G550... mmmmm, 4 heads.... okay that's just vulgar.

Regardless, you should just be able to shell mgapdesk from the command line and let it whirl... well, after you install it anyway, I would't trust the RPM either, the tarball worked for me... on Slackware, where you usually have to get creative with everything.

Cheers,

Finegan

OK..understood the first bit as I had tried copying the .o files over the originals a few days ago with a dual head card (550?) but that just resulted in a black screen when I ran sax2 so I presumed that I'd really screwed it and just re-installed 7.2.

Don't really understand any of what you say in your second para - I'm new to Linux and it went right over my head. Sorry.

I'm using 4.0.3 versions of the files

Cheers for the reply though.

Neil.

http://www.matrox.com/mga/support/dr...atest/home.cfm

From there is the powerdesk utility, it untars normally and its install script should get the one binary in the right place.

Configure X so that you get a viewable area, anything much will do. From this point on ignore Sax, actually... I'de avoid Sax entirely, but that's me: I like to break things myself, letting a wizard do it takes all the fun out of things. Then copy over the driver files and restart X. Within X you then just run from an xterm, as root using su:

/usr/X11/bin/mgapdesk

and that's a quick and nifty graphical interface you can use to then tweak your XF86Config file. Some of the tweaks will work on the fly, the rest X has to be restarted, but it will make a backup of your XF86Config should you do something really wonky.

Cheers,

Finegan

Cheers, mate, I'll take a look

Neil.