Dear People, I am currently tracking sarge. My video card is the Matrox Millenium G450. Recently, X 4.2 arrived in sarge. As it turns out, it broke my working XF86Config-4 file for 4.1, though I didn't realise it right away, since I keep the X server up and running for long periods.
I sent in a bug (169055) to xserver-xfree86, (though this might not be the right place). It can be viewed at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?archive=no&bug=169055 I haven't received any reply about it yet, but then Branden Robinson is presumably swamped with these things. I won't try to reproduce the entire bug report here, but in a nutshell, with my original working config file for 4.1, which corresponds to a resolution of 1280x1024, the server tries to come up, but then hangs with a blank screen. The X logs complain about "out of range errors", and my monitor also puts up a little box saying "Out of Range" which I have never seen before. I can get a working X server for 4.2, but only with the lower resolution of 1024x768. Note that the config file in the bug report is the original config file referred to at the beginning of this paragraph. I have seen other similar reports on the net, which leads me to believe it might be a bug, but if so it should be much more visible, because Matrox cards are pretty common. So, can anyone offer me any enlightenment on this? I have downgraded to 4.1 and my original XF86Config-4 file still works with 4.1 (otherwise I would fear for my sanity), and I've pinned all the X packages (all 27 of them) so apt is kept happy. But clearly I can't stay with 4.1 forever. Faheem. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
