recovering from the 6.3 xorg mess

[Kurt Jaeger]

Hi!

> I'd appreciate suggestions on how to get a working xorg from the mess 6.3 
> shipped with. I've been using FreeBSD since 2.2 and have never had much 
> trouble with it until the 6 branch was released. My hardware is pretty 
> generic Intel brand D865 motherboard, matrox g550 video. I don't customize 
> the kernel. I do clean installs not upgrades.

Basically, the problem is with the matrox board.

Due to the very same reasons I had to upgrade my workstation
(good excuse 8-)

Matrox provides a mga_hal binary to support the relevant resolution
and other gimmicks of that board. This binary works with xorg-6.x,
but not with xorg-7.x, because there were changes in the interfaces
to the low-level things.

As far as I can see, there is no driver from mga for 7.x available
as of now.

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