Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 16:49:37 -0700 From: Bradford Castalia <Castalia@azstarnet.com> To: Darren Shepard <dss@orst.edu> Cc: Alessandro de Manzano <demanzano@iol.it>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Matrox G450 and X 4.0.2 = blank ? Message-ID: <3A95A591.608C937D@azstarnet.com> References: <20010222123850.A23035@eel.ENGR.ORST.EDU>
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Yesterday I tried the 1_01_05_beta mga driver distribution from Matrox on FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE with XFree86-4.0.2 and a G400 32MB dual head AGP card. I was disappointed with the results. Reverting to the 1_00_04_beta distribution restored clean operation. Getting the XF86Config file right can be a bit daunting. I've been struggling to find the optimal configuration to wring the most display area out of the G400. By playing with xvidtune and tweaking a ModeLine for the Monitor section I've been able to realize 1152x860 at 24bpp. The Samsung 750p monitors I'm using can easily handle much higher resolution, and I'm sure the G400 can provide at least 1280x1024 for both screens (as demonstrated by the commercial Accelerated X multi-head server), but I haven't been able to discover the magic configuration to accomplish this. I'll provide a copy of my XF86Config, on request, if that might be of some help. -- Bradford Castalia Castalia@azstarnet.com Systems Analyst http://azstarnet.com/~castalia idaeim 520-624-6629 "Build an image in your mind, fit yourself into it." The Log of Cyradis, Seeress of Kell. Darren Shepard wrote: > > > Now I've got a new Matrox Millenium G450 32Mb dual head AGP card, but > > I've got also some weird problems... > > > > Under XF 3, using XF86_SVGA as server, my monitor is totally blank (NEC > > FE750). I'm sure this is not a > > unsupported-resolution/frequency/scantimes problem, since I've > > configured X (with XF86Setup) also for 640x480x16 @ 60Hz and it's the > > same :( > > (things like chipset mga etc. seems to be ok) > [...] > > > More... when I get such a blank screen, I can't use > > "ctrl-alt-backspace" to brute-force exit XFree ! It's like the keyboard > > is not working (yes, I configured it and mouse too :) ) > > Also killing -9 the XFree process from a telnet session does not > > restore the VGA/Monitor ! I had to power-cycle the whole machine! :-( > [...] > > You need the latest beta linux drivers from Matrox: > http://www.matrox.com/mga/support/drivers/files/linux_05.cfm > > They're available as source or binary. Since you've already built X4 > you might want to try the binaries. Simply copy mga_drv.o and > mga_hal_drv.o to /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers. You may wish to > backup the existing mga_drv.o before you do this. > > Then do 'XFree86 -configure' and that should generate a working config. > > -- > Darren Shepard | dss@orst.edu > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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