Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 20:53:44 +0800 From: x z <rankshell@gmail.com> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: downgrade xorg to 7.1 Message-ID: <41b66750912280453r562a226co80e383eeb87de531@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0912270916300.34883@wonkity.com> References: <41b66750912260753v2ac9366dm2c1ebf15a127d686@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0912261228580.30939@wonkity.com> <41b66750912270539i3e71a069xa0524106e913c98b@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0912270916300.34883@wonkity.com>
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On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 12:41 AM, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote: > On Sun, 27 Dec 2009, x z wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 3:39 AM, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote: >> >> On Sat, 26 Dec 2009, x z wrote: >>> >>> I would downgrade xorg from 7.4 to 7.1 for display driver. >>> >>> Why? >>> >>> Because I have a Matrox G550 card which has property driver supported up >> to >> xorg 7.1. >> > > I used a couple of G400s which were far past their use-by dates and spent a > good deal of effort keeping them going. The alternate 1.9.100 branch of the > mga driver was better. It needs patches to build with the current xorg, > which I have, but also there are reports of problems after that. Haven't > worked on it because I replaced the cards and retired the systems they were > in. The equipment is still available, and I may work on it again sometime. > My page with information: > > http://wonkity.com/~wblock/mgapatch/xorg-patch.txt<http://wonkity.com/%7Ewblock/mgapatch/xorg-patch.txt>; > > The patches to remove cfb code from 1.9.100 are in that directory now, too, > so they don't get lost. > > You might also try the 1.4.11 version of the driver. I don't know if it's > a drop-in replacement for the 1.4.10 in ports, or if it supports your G550: > > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-mga/ > > If your hardware allows (PC98 and sparc apparently don't), replacing the > Matrox with a Radeon makes things much easier. > > > -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA > Thank you very much for your information, I would dig into it when I am on free time. The reason why I want to try the proprietary driver is that it seems the open source driver can't reach more than 800x600 resolutions on DVI port
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