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Old June 4th 12, 04:54 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
Linea Recta[_2_]
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Linea Recta wrote:
"Paul" schreef in bericht
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Linea Recta wrote:
Trying to install a Matrox Marvel G200, I thought(!) because this guy
(without internet access!) had an install CD for this device lying
around by which I was misled. So I had downloaded a driver from Matrox
which I tried to install.
The driver wouldn't install because it had "not found a compatible
device". But it did do one useful thing for me. Got a message: "devices
found: Matrox Millennium G400".

So at least now I know what card is in his PC.
Now I downloaded the WindowsXP driver for Millennium G400
(xp2k_596_004.exe) and friday I'll give it another go...

That ought to work out a bit better.



Didn't work. This time I got the message "unsupported device found:
Matrox Millennium G400 Dual Head". What's in a damned name...


http://pciids.sourceforge.net/pci.ids

102b Matrox Electronics Systems Ltd.
0525 MGA G400/G450
...
102b 2159 Millennium G400 Dual Head 16Mb

The 102b:0525 would identify a particular chip. The "102b 2159"
would be the SUBSYS or "design instance". Meaning, a custom
board configuration using that chip.

There are a couple features of the card, that could make a
SUBSYS necessary for matching in the INF. Video cards back
then, came in a couple RAM sizes. But the Dual Head also uses
an external converter for the video signal. One output uses
an internal 300MHz DAC, for a 2048 x 1536 signal. The second
output is done with an external converter, limited to 1280 x 1024.
So the second head is not as capable as the first (unlike modern
cards where the heads are symmetric and are no longer referred to
as heads).

http://web.archive.org/web/200306141...0/dualhead.pdf

You'd going to have to download drivers, and keep looking inside INF
files, until you find a match.

You could try using Everest free version, to read out the card
info. I've gotten the 102b:0525 portion (VENEV) using
that tool. The subsys is an eight digit number, where the first
four digits are board maker (still Matrox in this case) and
the other four digits are the instance. So 102b 2159 is the
SUBSYS.

http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/4127/subsys.gif

The Everest program is here.

http://majorgeeks.com/download4181.html

The purpose of verifying the details, is to make sure the
message you got "unsupported device found", is an accurate
determination.

If I look in the file I downloaded before, I can see files inside like

ftp://ftp.matrox.com/pub/mga/archive...2k_596_004.exe

G400.inf

and inside there, a line such as

[Mfg.Matrox]
;---------------
;G400 - English
;---------------

%Str01%%ENG%=IN00.ENG,PCI\VEN_102B&DEV_0525&SUBSYS _2159102B --- line
matching 2159

and that's the kind of matching I'm talking about. (Note
that the SUBSYS field can have the fields reversed, and
Everest may present the fields in a different order than
the INF.)

So double check the SUBSYS your card is showing in Everest,
to verify what's going on.




Thanks very much for your efforts. I'll have a look at that. The
(additional) problem is that I'm only now and then at my fathers place, and
he doesn't have internet and no documentation. So I'll have to know
everything in advance before I go there, that's what it makes it very
exhausting...



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