Problex with Matrox G450 and XFree86 4.3.0 on 4.8-STABLE
Andre Albsmeier
andre.albsmeier at siemens.com
Thu May 22 05:13:52 PDT 2003
On Sun, 11-May-2003 at 00:35:27 -0700, Eric Anholt wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-05-10 at 23:58, Bjarne Wichmann Petersen wrote:
> > On Thursday 08 May 2003 14:31, Barry Irwin wrote:
> >
> > > Any bright ideas. I've had a look at
> > > http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/dri/index.html and all seems ane to me.
> >
> > I'm using G450 as well and followed the above link. I'm not sure mga_hal is a
> > must if you want to run drm/dri. It doesn't load here either, and drm
> > works... sorta. But I've got a few issues:
> >
> > 1) drm can only be initialized after a reboot. Any resetting af X after a
> > reboot will make drm fail.
> >
> > 2) *sometimes* drm/dri/opengl doesn't look like it's working properly. Eg.
> > sometimes the KDE-screensaver only occupies a *part* of the upper left corner
> > (guess it's something like 640x480).
>
> You don't need mga_hal. On my X site I have:
>
> The MGA hal is a closed-source hardware access library from
> Matrox. XFree86 includes the ability to make a loadable module
> using this library to add features to XFree86's Matrox support.
> If the loadable module is present it enables TV Out and dualhead
> for G400 cards (non-G400 dualhead cards don't need it). If it
Is it now possible to use TV Out on non-G400 cards (of course, without
the MGA hal module since they don't support these cards) ?
-Andre
> isn't found, an error message is printed about it being missing
> but it's not a problem unless you need these features.
>
> There's some more that having the mga_hal changes, but I wasn't clear on
> what it was.
>
> I know about the drm not successfully initilizing on the second start of
> XFree86. This is something that, afaik, only occurs with KDE. My guess
> is that there's something going on with forking that some KDE program
> does which confuses the DRM. I made a patch for it, but the one person
> who has tested it so far said it didn't help.
>
> I don't know about #2.
>
> --
> Eric Anholt eta at lclark.edu
> http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/ anholt at FreeBSD.org
>
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