1.4.6.2:
* Please note: This is a quick-and-dirty fix just to get this driver to
compile on newer kernels and to fix the most annoying bugs.
* Added support for Linux kernel 2.6.26 and 2.6.27
* Fixed a compiler warning in mtx_drv.h
* Fixed an issue where having more than 3GB of RAM on a 64bit system crashed
the driver (solution inspired by Matrox)
* Fixed the installer script to properly install the latest driver on newer
X.Org X Servers instead of the oldest one
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This is the first unofficial mtx driver release based upon the new official 1.4.6 core. It contains only compatibility changes to compile on 2.6.25+ and some small changes to remove compile warnings (see ChangeLog below). Downloads:
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ChangeLog: 1.4.6.1: * Re-applied all previous modifications (they dropped them all again) * Added support for Linux kernel 2.6.25 * Fixed a compiler warning in mtx_irq.c
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This is the second unofficial mtx driver release based upon the new official 1.4.5 core. It contains only compatibility changes to compile on 2.6.23+ and some small changes to remove compile warnings (see ChangeLog below). Downloads:
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ChangeLog:
1.4.5.2:
* Added compatibility support for kernel versions >= 2.6.23
* mtxversion.h:
- Increased unofficial version number
* mtx_agp.c:
- Removed a warning of an unused variable on recent kernel versions
* mtx_drv.c:
- Replaced pci_find_slot() with pci_get_bus_and_slot() for recent
kernel versions
- The return type of unregister_chrdev() has changed in 2.6.23
- Removed another warning of an unused variable
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This is the first unofficial mtx driver release based upon the new official 1.4.5 core. It contains only minor modifications (see ChangeLog below) but was the first step
to sync it up with the 1.4.4 unofficial releases. Downloads:
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ChangeLog:
1.4.5.1:
* First unofficial driver release based upon the 1.4.5 core
* Reintroduced this ChangeLog file and moved it to the top of the
extracted driver archive
* Reintroduced the file "make.sh" in the driver root
* mtx_agp.c:
- Removed the 'strucure' typo again
- Removed the 'cleanup:' jumpmarks as they are only used once
* mtx_os.c:
- Reintroduced the 'memset before check' bugfix
* mtx_strintf.c:
- Reintroduced the 'memset before check' bugfix
* mtx_drv.c:
- Reintroduced pci_register_driver/pci_module_init compatibility update
- Added unofficial version output
* mtxversion.h:
- Added unofficial version
* install.sh:
- installs the v4l module automatically again
1.4.5:
* Official Matrox release.
I don't know what Matrox has changed in 1.4.5, but I recognized a
few things that don't work anymore or have changed in behaviour:
- They added a file called x86_32 resp. x86_64 with no content to
specify the architecture of the driver installer package
- They added a file called version.txt containing the version of the
driver
- They updated install.sh (shrinked it down from 3089 to 803 lines) so
please have a look yourself about what has changed. Currently, I just
recognized two things:
o The v4l driver doesn't get installed automatically
o The installer automagically installs the oldest mtx_drv.so if
it has troubles in detecting your X version. This usually applies
to all Debian based distributions which introduced the new Xorg
modular versioning scheme (e.g. 1.3.0 instead of 7.3.0).
- They made warnings out of most AGP related error messages instead of
looking at the cause (sigh)
- They changed the wording of some error- and informational messages
in the parhelia library ("Cannot stop Matrox xform" vs. "Cannot stop
features")
- They managed to break switching between X and a running framebuffer
enabled console (with 1.4.4 that used to work flawlessly, now with 1.4.5
you need to stop the X server before you can work at your text console
again)
- In some places they dropped backwards compatibility to older kernel
versions as well as removed forwards compatibility to 2.6.22 f.ex.
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After a long time without any updates to the unofficial mtx driver I finally compiled a new release together today. Have fun! Downloads:
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ChangeLog:
* Corrected the wording in the installer when a newer Xorg version is
detected that is not directly supported by a precompiled mtx_drv.so to
avoid confusion
* Some small cleanups in the installer to prevent it from moving files
that aren't there and therefore to reduce error messages during
installation
* In 2.6.22-rc2 the symbol "pci_module_init" has finally been removed, now
the mtx driver takes care about that
* Added two small patches from forum user "dagnygren" fixing bugs regarding
memory allocation
* Added a small helper file called "make.sh" to only build the Matrox
Kernel module instead of installing the whole beast
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I definetly need to get more sleep, 1.4.4.7 was buggy too, according to this posting in the Unofficial Matrox Technical Support Forum. I don't know how I felt this change was correct, but it was simply wrong. I reversed in code what I had in mind and usually this makes it working, but this time my mind was right ;) Downloads: |
ChangeLog:
* Unfortunately, I broke 1.4.4.7 for kernel versions before 2.6.18 with
the change from SA_SHIRQ to IRQF_SHARED (as mentioned in 1.4.4.5).
Fixed that now, should work again.
* Added some descriptive text to the V4L installer routine when the driver
doesn't get installed because it's already installed to better separate
the outputs from X driver installation and V4L driver installation
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I have to admit, that my Change Management (according to ITIL) was not the best for 1.4.4.6. The installer script contained typos :-/ Therefore I took the opportunity to add some additional changes to 1.4.4.6 and am coming up with 1.4.4.7 now for you. I always wanted to implement an additional function to install.sh, that does automatically install the already available v4l driver for the Matrox cards and now it's done. Additionally, I finally wrote up a ChangeLog file with all previous changes to the driver and added it to the docs directory. |
ChangeLog:
* As 1.4.4.6 has undergone my perfect change management, it was broken :-/
* Fixed a typo in an awk call in install.sh
* Added the installation of the v4l driver to install.sh
* Modified mtxversion.h and mtx_drv.c to show the real unofficial version
of the mtx driver in dmesg
* Renamed the v4l subdirectories from "M_N_O" to "M.N.O" just like the
xserver subdirectories
* Created and added this ChangeLog file to the docs directory
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Well, currently only a few of you have already downloaded 1.4.4.5 and I'm coming up with 1.4.4.6 here right now.
Today I got an e-mail from a guy telling me that Xorg 7.2.0 is out for Gentoo and that 1.4.4.5 can't be installed
on Xorg 7.2.0 as it is the case for all future Xorg versions that will come. So to finally get rid of this nasty issue I added a small part to the installer that does automatically install the latest available mtx_drv.so version if the X version is newer than the supported ones. As always, if there are any issues with this driver release, please tell me about your experiences in the Unofficial Matrox Technical Support Forum. |
ChangeLog:
* Added the ability to support future Xorg versions automatically to install.sh
so Xorg 7.2.0 should be supported with this release.
* Fixed the "find /usr and delete all libGL* files without further notice" issue
* Replaced the readme.txt with an updated one that was modified by me and some forum members
* Renamed the directories below the xserver subdirectory from "M_N_O" to "M.N.O" because
the former version was always useless