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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

Matrox:

First I tried with the plain Bl2 kernel and insmodded all the fbcons and 
then matroxfb.  It complained about 18 unresolved symbols, including what 
looked like 8, 16, 24 and 32 bit versions of the 2 and 4 modules. 
fb_con, and various other things as well.

So then I tried the kernel you compiled and instead of complaining it 
crashed to a black screen.

I think matrox needs to have the kernel compiled specially for it, 
removing one feature used by vesafb.  Framebuffer HOWTO had a section on 
Matrox.

The instructions called for a long list of advanced low-level drivers, and 
multihead, and matrox acceleration and millenium II (to optimized 
performance) and to NOT set up for vesa framebuffer (VESA vga graphic 
console) which WAS needed for vesafb.

I have notes about using fbset   fbset -fb /dev/fb -vyres 600 (?).

And con2fb to split consoles between monitors.

I might try this again in a year or two.  Thanks for compiling the kernel 
and xfbdev.  I hope they are helpful to other people who cannot use Xvesa. 
I might try the Matrox card in one computer for a while with vesafb (the 
computer where the S3 cards are not working right with resizecons or 
links2 svgalib - nothing to lose).

keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org
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