[dundee] Matrox Millenium P690 Plus LP PCIe x16.possible driver problem

[Andrew Clayton]

On Sun, 23 Mar 2014 20:14:28 +0000 (GMT), Malcolm wrote:
 
> !/bin/sh
> # This script was generated using Makeself 2.1.1
> CRCsum="3499591246"
> MD5="9d1590d0268a2671a0b1bdf55d845d56"
> TMPROOT=${TMPDIR:=/tmp}
> 
> label="Matrox Parhelia Driver"
> script="./install.sh"
> scriptargs=""
> echo -n "Please, enter the directory to extract the files [$HOME/] "
> read str_installdir
> if [ "$str_installdir" = "." ] ; then
> str_installdir=$PWD
> fi
> if [ "$str_installdir" = "./" ] ; then
> str_installdir=$PWD
> fi
> if [ "$str_installdir" = "" ] ; then
> targetdir=$HOME/matroxdriver-x86_64-cvs-20090511
> echo ""
> else
> if test -d $str_installdir; then
> targetdir=$str_installdir/matroxdriver-x86_64-cvs-20090511
> else
> mkdir -p $str_installdir || {
> echo 'Cannot create target directory' $str_installdir >&2
> eval /
> exit 1
> }
> targetdir=$str_installdir/matroxdriver-x86_64-cvs-20090511
> 
> I can C&P more if needed but I thought I should try and keep this
> post short.
> 
> How do I load this?  It's probably safe to assume I need very simple
> instructions.

Did you try running the script?

Sorry to be the bearer of more doom and gloom, but as far as Linux
goes, Matrox are now worse than nvidia. At some point they stopped even
providing docs and AFAIK there's no reverse engineering driver work
going on). Current versions of Mesa (OpenGL) don't have even _any_
matrox support (in fact it only supports, Intel, AMD and Nvidia
hardware)[1]

Given the age of the binary driver you found, there's a good chance it
won't even work. I am curious to know what driver you are currently
using? Perhaps post your /var/log/Xorg.0.log (or wherever it is on your
system).

[1] - http://mesa3d.org/systems.html