Fedora 3 and Matrox G550

[Pover, J.P. (John)]

Dear Reader,

I have a problem setting up a Tyan Thunder K7X Pro with a Matrox G550
videocard with Xorg-X11 as part of Fedora Core 3 (screen is a 19" Iilyama
Pro 452). It used to be a nobrainer and looked very handsome right upto and
including Fedora Core 1 with XFree86. Problem is that the system hangs after
either probing the "Xorg -configure" resulted /root/xorg.conf.new or after
"system-config-display". Finally displayed message is this : "Trying with
Matrox G550-card" or words to that effect. After this it blanks out forcing
a reboot as a result. When switching the driver in the Device-section of
/etc/X11/xorg.conf from "mga" to "vesa" it works but it looks rather lousy
when compared with what it used to look like under XFree86. Strange thing is
that a nearly identical Tyan Thunder K7 Pro with a Matrox G450 works like it
supposed to with FC3/Xorg. I have installed the latest driver supplied by
Matrox (october 2004 : found in mgadriver-4.0.tar.gz) and also FC3/Xorg is
complete and up to date. Flagging off the "dri" option does not make any
difference.

Any experiences with Matrox ? 
Any suggestions ?

Regards
John Pover

Why a Matrox G550 in such a system ? Well, that is another story : those of
you who have ever tried to marry a ATI All in Wonder 9800 with a Tyan mobo
probably have the same high bloodpressure as I have.

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