x11-drivers/xf86-video-mga: current issues

[Warren Block]

On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Randy Pratt wrote:

> On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 13:17:22 +0000
> "Florent Thoumie" <flz at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>
>> Can I have confirmation from a couple people that the patch from
>> ports/117726 actually solves most (if not all) problems with the mga
>> driver?
>
> I've been using the xf86-video-mga-1.4.7,1 from that PR for awhile
> now and it performs like previous versions.  I can't use the version
> presently in the tree for reasons discussed on this mailing list:
>
>  http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20071103180058.1c1bd333.bsd-unix
>  http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20071103114415.7d910c32.bsd-unix
>
> I did try to fuss with the xf86-video-mga-1.9.100 using xrandr and such
> and did manage to get a resolution my eyes could live with but mplayer
> would only display a blue screen in its window.  This version certainly
> didn't work out-of-the-box for me.
>
> I'm in favor of the patched version from ports/117726 but there was
> some discussion of having both versions in the tree since the newer
> version seemed to have solved some dual-head issues for others.
> They'll have to speak up regarding those though since I can't readily
> find the list references.

Last I tried 1.4.7, dualhead did not work at all.  Single monitor setups 
were okay.

Has anyone who had problems with 1.9.100 contacted Tilman Sauerbeck or 
put a bug report on bugs.freedesktop.org?  It would be nice to see this 
problem fixed so we could all be running the same version.

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA