From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 15 21:17:16 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24E0216A419 for ; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:17:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8448213C45A for ; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:17:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l9FLGSFd055641; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:16:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1/Submit) id l9FLGS6H055640; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:16:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:16:27 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: "Bahman M." Message-ID: <20071015211627.GA55530@thought.org> References: <20071015053710.GA48887@thought.org> <20071015180402.GB54185@thought.org> <20071016001753.5d510827@attila> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071016001753.5d510827@attila> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 21 of service to the Unix community. Cc: Gary Kline , FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: New data. (Was: Re: xorg driver bug) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:17:16 -0000 On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 12:17:53AM +0330, Bahman M. wrote: > On 2007-10-15 Gary Kline wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 10:37:10PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > > Guys, > > > > > > Has anybody with any Dell run into this before? I just got > > > a new Matrox with 32M of video ram. Run with the "mga" driver, X > > > comes up extremely dark. If I change the driver to the "vesa" X > > > comes up with normal brightness but the resolution is terrible. At > > > most 640x480. tHis could be a hardware bug;I'm hoping it is > > > just not having selected the right driver. > > > > > > Anybody know what to try next? > > > > > > > Update, and no-joy: i've added Modes lines, tried different > > flags. Still, using the "mga" drivr gives a dark screen; only the > > "vesa" works. none of the xorg config toools work. The Matroc > > Millennium G450 is brand new, so doubt it's the card. The previous > > card had the same problem--way to dark--soI got this new card. > > > Some years ago, I had some similar problem with a Vistac monitor using > nVidia (on Linux). I found that it was the monitor not doing well in > some resolutions or colour depths. Changing the monitor solved the > problem. > > I'd suggest you try with another monitor and see if it works. It *could* be my CRT but it works on my 3 other KVM'd platforms flawlessly. Besides, the reason I bought the new G450 was because the exact same thing was happening with my other v-card. I tried "mga" and gathered the following data from the failure dump. [[X did work, but there was this huge, dark band a couple inches from the top (where the display was much lightr) and after the drk middle band, the display was also light toward the bottom. Here is what I found after I did a shutdown now: Requesting insufficient memory window!: start 0xfd800000 to 0x7efffff size 0x2000000 (EE) Cannnot find empty range to map base to (II) Module "ramdac" already built-in (EE) [drm] drmOpen failed (EE) DRM(0) [dm] DRMScreenInit failed . Disabling DRI Does this ring a bell among anybody who is familiar with xorg? My thinking now is that something is wrong with the video on the m'board; that both this new G50 and the last card were all right. Any thoughts? thanks, > > HTH, > > Bahman -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org