From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 29 18:21:45 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23A19106566B for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:21:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D13BB8FC1E for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:21:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n0TILhwK016991; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:21:43 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) with ESMTP id n0TILhjP016988; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:21:43 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:21:43 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block To: Mark Knight In-Reply-To: <1532XLOh3bgJFwKw@lap.knigma.org> Message-ID: References: <+$PUWxC8yOfJFwC1@lap.knigma.org> <1232939280.1973.7.camel@wombat.2hip.net> <1233002689.88679.24.camel@squirrel.corp.cox.com> <1233197046.1779.11.camel@wombat.2hip.net> <1233234690.1779.20.camel@wombat.2hip.net> <1233238588.1779.48.camel@wombat.2hip.net> <1532XLOh3bgJFwKw@lap.knigma.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0.1 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:21:43 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xorg 7.4 breaks mga with G450 X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:21:45 -0000 On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, Mark Knight wrote: > In message <1233238588.1779.48.camel@wombat.2hip.net>, Robert Noland > writes >> Things that make you go Hrm... >> >> (==) MGA(0): Min pixel clock is 12 MHz >> (--) MGA(0): Max pixel clock is 1200 MHz > > Well this might make you go "Ha": > > This next log is from the same hardware that I'm now having trouble with Xorg > 7.4. > > Unfortunately it's a little older than I'd like since I don't backup /var/log > too often: > > http://www.knigma.org.uk/scratch/xorg-good-mga-log.txt Dual-head didn't work with that setup, did it? > (--) MGA(0): BIOS at 0xFEAC0000 > Requesting insufficient memory window!: start: 0xfda00000 end: 0xfeafffff size 0x2000000 > (EE) Cannot find empty range to map base to > (WW) MGA(0): Video BIOS info block not detected! Without the video BIOS, the mga driver couldn't detect which card it was. (I think, it's been a while.) That was what my patch to xorg-server (1.4.x) fixed. Or at least made work, by reading the video BIOS directly. http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/mgapatch/xorg-patch.txt http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/mgapatch/patch-Pci.c-WB That's exactly where libpciaccess comes in. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA