Problem with Matrox G450 and XFree86 4.3.0 on 4.8-STABLE

[Eric Anholt]

On Wed, 2003-05-14 at 04:04, Ruben van Staveren wrote:
> On Sun, May 11, 2003 at 08:58:58AM +0200, Bjarne Wichmann Petersen wrote:
> > 
> > 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).
> 
> Shortly after the upgrade to 4.3.0 (the initial submit to the ports showed no
> problems at that time) my MGA-450 wouldn't do full screen video anymore using
> the xv extension, and using mplayer -vo sdl -vm -fs -zoom would change to a
> video mode (-vm yes) that rendered the X server unusable: high load and no
> signal to the monitor. 

Was it by chance on any mode switch (ctrl-atl-plus/minus), and is it
still around?  If so, does it go away without the DRM?  Can you connect
to the machine from elsewhere after it happens?

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