Re: Matrox BIOS upgrades (Was Re: [patch] vesafb panning: scrollback support and nice speedup)

Gerd Knorr (kraxel@goldbach.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de)
Sat, 8 Aug 1998 10:19:37 +0200


In lists.linux.kernel you write:

>On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Michael L. Galbraith wrote:

>> > What version is the Matrox's BIOS? If it's older than v1.8, try upgrading.
>>
>> Have a hot tip handy on how to do that? :) I didn't see <tap tap tap>
>> anything at the Matrox site.

>Since this is of interest to other Matrox users, I've posted to the linux
>mailing list to get the BIOS upgrades for Matrox cards, go to this URL and
>download the setup342.zip (542k file). You'll need to run it from DOS. :o(

>http://www.matrox.com/mgaweb/drivers/ftp_bios.htm

>This contains versions of BIOSes for most of the Matroxes.

What exactly is in there:

bogomips kraxel /DOSe/drv/matrox.new# strings 8* | grep "IBM"
IBM COMPATIBLE MATROX/MILLENNIUM VGA/VBE BIOS (V3.0 )
IBM COMPATIBLE MATROX/MYSTIQUE VGA/VBE BIOS (V1.8 )
IBM COMPATIBLE MATROX/MILLENNIUM II VGA/VBE BIOS (V1.5 )
IBM COMPATIBLE MATROX/MYSTIQUE VGA/VBE BIOS (V1.8 RR )
IBM COMPATIBLE MATROX/MILLENNIUM II VGA/VBE BIOS (V1.4 )
IBM COMPATIBLE MATROX/MGA-G100 VGA/VBE BIOS (V1.4 )
IBM COMPATIBLE MATROX/MILLENNIUM II VGA/VBE BIOS (V1.4 RR )
IBM COMPATIBLE MATROX/MILLENNIUM II VGA/VBE BIOS (V1.3 RR )
IBM COMPATIBLE MATROX/MGA-G200 VGA/VBE BIOS (V1.2 )

Gerd

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Gerd Knorr <kraxel@cs.tu-berlin.de>

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