On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, Kevin Oberman wrote:
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:36:23 +0100
From: Kurt Jaeger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Hi!
I'd appreciate suggestions on how to get a working xorg from the mess 6.3
shipped with. I've been using FreeBSD since 2.2 and have never had much
trouble with it until the 6 branch was released. My hardware is pretty
generic Intel brand D865 motherboard, matrox g550 video. I don't customize
the kernel. I do clean installs not upgrades.
Basically, the problem is with the matrox board.
Due to the very same reasons I had to upgrade my workstation
(good excuse 8-)
Matrox provides a mga_hal binary to support the relevant resolution
and other gimmicks of that board. This binary works with xorg-6.x,
but not with xorg-7.x, because there were changes in the interfaces
to the low-level things.
As far as I can see, there is no driver from mga for 7.x available
as of now.
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I have run the Matrox G550 under both 6 and 7. I had some problems, but
not too many. I do need to use xrandr to set up the proper resolution,
though.
#!/bin/sh
# Set 1280x1024 mode on second display
xrandr --addmode VGA2 1280x1024
# Set 1024x768 mode on second port (Why? Why not.)
xrandr --addmode VGA2 1024x768
# Set the second port to use 1280x1024
xrandr --output VGA2 --mode 1280x1024
If you have a dual-monitor setup, you need xf86-video-mga-1.9.100. The
version in ports is mga-1.4.7. You will have to pull the old port out of
cvs. The version was rolled back on Jan. 2, 2008 due to problems people
were having with the new code,
Let me know if you need a copy of my xorg.conf for this beast. The
xrandr setup is a bit different from the old one.
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I was not familiar with using xrandr. I am now able to control the
resolution and refresh rate from the command line. xrandr -v however is
not reporting all the refresh rates that this monitor is capable of
at higher resolutions. Am I going to have to set those manually?
This is an ugly way to have to deal with X. So this definitely means the
mga driver is broken?
I would appreciate a copy of your xorg.conf
Thanks for your suggestions.
peter
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