From: James Simmons <jsimmons@edgeglobal.com>
  To  : Joris Mak <kroma@xs4all.nl>
  Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 09:52:58 -0500 (EST)

Re: matrox millennium support

On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Joris Mak wrote:

> I'm using the matroxfb driver from the kernel for a while,
> and it works fine except in 320x200 modes...
> If I set it with fbset (-xres 320 -yres 200 -depth 8 or -depth 16 or something else), 
> it sets some sort of mode, but It looks like 320x400 mode, but with a virtual y of 200,
> totally screwed up... Every GGI program/demo that I try to run in 320x200 exits with signal 11...
> 
> So, next step was the kgicon driver. It compiled well. When i tried to insmod it, my monitor loses sync
> and my system locks up. Next I tried insmod kgicon.o ramdac_mhz=135, now my monitor don't loses
> sync, but the screen is black and my system still locks up.
> 
> 
> I will send the first part of this message also to the author of matroxfb-driver, but I don't know if this/these
> problem(s) are known. If somebody got his card working in some 320x200 mode, please let me know...
>

No for the KGI driver it doesn't support that mode. To support that mode
you need to set the card into vga mode. The driver is written in MMIO so
it can be multiheaded. If you support vga mode you have a good chance that
you can't use another card with this card.