diff --git a/drivers/video/matrox/matroxfb_accel.c b/drivers/video/matrox/matroxfb_accel.c
index a5c825d..c57aaad 100644
--- a/drivers/video/matrox/matroxfb_accel.c
+++ b/drivers/video/matrox/matroxfb_accel.c
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@
  *     (c) 1998 Gerd Knorr <kraxel@cs.tu-berlin.de>
  *
  * (following author is not in any relation with this code, but his ideas
- *  were used when writting this driver)
+ *  were used when writing this driver)
  *
  *		 FreeVBE/AF (Matrox), "Shawn Hargreaves" <shawn@talula.demon.co.uk>
  *