Re: Get g550 working

Brian Paul <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.mesa3d.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 12/27/2014 04:48 AM, Elio Blanca wrote:
> Hi, I still have a pc with a working matrox mga g550 and the OS is
> xubuntu 14.04.1, recently installed in order to replace windows xp (it
> is my father's pc).
> Now, the shipped version of mesa libs is 10.x which dropped support for
> older hardware. This seems to me quite reasonable, but how can I
> nowadays get this hardware working with 3D contents? In the "platform
> and drivers" page you say the code needed for deprecated hardware is
> still available via git. Do you mean it is just a matter of
> configure/make ?

It means reverting to an older point/revision in git, or downloading a 
Mesa release that predates 10.x.

> How am I supposed to build it?

The usual way.

> Perhaps have I to switch to an older distribution?

That might be simpler.

> Any suggestion?

Or maybe pick up a new gfx card on ebay.  You could probably get a 
something much newer/faster for just a few dollars.

-Brian


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