#546836

2011-01-28 Thread Will Set
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Bug#546836: Bug confirmed: Matrox G550 unusable under squeeze

2011-01-28 Thread Will Set
- Original Message From: Etienne Vogt To: Cyril Brulebois Cc: ev...@free.fr; 546...@bugs.debian.org; Michel Dänzer Sent: Fri, January 28, 2011 5:31:06 PM Subject: Bug#546836: Bug confirmed: Matrox G550 unusable under squeeze On Fri, 28 Jan 2011, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hmm

Bug#546836: Bug confirmed: Matrox G550 unusable under squeeze

2011-01-28 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Etienne Vogt (28/01/2011): > Yes, in /etc/ld.so.conf : > > /usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw3d > /usr/X11R6/lib > /usr/i486-linuxlibc1/lib > > include /etc/ld.so.conf.d/*.conf OK, what I thought. Meaning we only need to check ldd's output for /usr/local and /usr/X11R6, there's no special search path magi

Bug#546836: Bug confirmed: Matrox G550 unusable under squeeze

2011-01-28 Thread Etienne Vogt
On Fri, 28 Jan 2011, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Hmm, I can't reproduce this. Is there anything referencing /usr/X11R6/lib as a path which can hold libraries and which should be searched into? Maybe something like /etc/ld*? Yes, in /etc/ld.so.conf : /usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw3d /usr/X11R6/lib /usr/i486-

Bug#546836: Bug confirmed: Matrox G550 unusable under squeeze

2011-01-27 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Etienne Vogt (26/01/2011): > So there's a reference to an old libXfont.so.1 in /usr/X11R6/lib/ on > the affected system which is apparently quite old stuff. Since it > is no longer referenced in any installed package, I removed the > whole /usr/X11R6 directory from the system and X is now working

Bug#546836: Bug confirmed: Matrox G550 unusable under squeeze

2011-01-26 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Etienne Vogt (26/01/2011): > So there's a reference to an old libXfont.so.1 in /usr/X11R6/lib/ on > the affected system which is apparently quite old stuff. IIRC the last time it was that library as well. > Probably these old files in /usr/X11R6 are a leftover from that > manual install. I've j

Bug#546836: Bug confirmed: Matrox G550 unusable under squeeze

2011-01-26 Thread Etienne Vogt
On Wed, 26 Jan 2011, Cyril Brulebois wrote: That reminds me of some bug report where there were some libraries left over from really old stuff, like X11R6 files. You may want to try locate or find and see whether there are such files left. You could also try ldd on /usr/bin/Xorg (though I'm no

Bug#546836: Bug confirmed: Matrox G550 unusable under squeeze

2011-01-26 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Etienne Vogt (26/01/2011): > I checked in /usr/local and found nothing obvious (no old libraries > there), but this system is old, it was first installed in Debian > potatoe and upgraded all the way up to squeeze over the time. The > system that works fine was installed in lenny and upgraded to >

Bug#546836: Bug confirmed: Matrox G550 unusable under squeeze

2011-01-26 Thread Etienne Vogt
On Wed, 26 Jan 2011, Michel Dänzer wrote: If the X log file ends abruptly like that, there's usually more information in the X server stderr output, which should be captured in the gdm/kdm/... log file. Ok, I will check the gdm logfile next time. Finally, I put the original hard disk back

Bug#546836: Bug confirmed: Matrox G550 unusable under squeeze

2011-01-26 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mit, 2011-01-26 at 00:45 +0100, Etienne Vogt wrote: > > On Tue, 25 Jan 2011, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > > could you please check whether there's something in Xorg.0.log.old? > > Maybe the one with no info is a restarted one? > > No, it ends up with : > drmOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID pci

Bug#546836: Bug confirmed: Matrox G550 unusable under squeeze

2011-01-25 Thread Etienne Vogt
Hi, On Tue, 25 Jan 2011, Cyril Brulebois wrote: could you please check whether there's something in Xorg.0.log.old? Maybe the one with no info is a restarted one? No, it ends up with : drmOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID pci::01:00.0 drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 drmOpenDevic

Bug#546836: Bug confirmed: Matrox G550 unusable under squeeze

2011-01-25 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi Etienne, Etienne Vogt (25/01/2011): > I updated my home desktop system to squeeze this weekend and was > hit by this same Matrox G550 bug. As soon as the xserver is started, > the screen turns completely black. I coudn't even switch back to > console mode (either MDA text console or VESA fram

Bug#546836: Bug confirmed: Matrox G550 unusable under squeeze

2011-01-25 Thread Etienne Vogt
Hi there, I updated my home desktop system to squeeze this weekend and was hit by this same Matrox G550 bug. As soon as the xserver is started, the screen turns completely black. I coudn't even switch back to console mode (either MDA text console or VESA framebuffer console). The monitor itsel

Bug#546836: xserver-xorg-video-mga: Hit by this bug too: Failed to initialize DMA! (-2)

2011-01-02 Thread M.-A. DARCHE
Package: xserver-xorg-video-mga Version: 1:1.4.11.dfsg-4 Severity: normal Hello, I am, too, hit by the same bug. And for me too, the only solution has been to switch to the "vesa" Driver instead of the "mga" Driver :-( Everything worked fine with Matrox cards on Debian while XFree was used. Sin

Bug#546836: mga broken with new xserver-xorg 1:7.5 too

2010-01-29 Thread Wendy Elmer
I tried mga again with the new xserver-xorg 1:7.5 that just hit squeeze. It made no difference. It still just gives a black screen. It is a shame that the state of graphics cards in Linux is still in such bad shape. Especially when the mga driver used to work so well in Linux before the last tw

Processed: severity of 546836 is important

2009-11-29 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > # pusling says mga is not completely broken > severity 546836 important Bug #546836 [xserver-xorg-video-mga] [xserver-xorg-video-mga] black screen when X starts Severity set to 'important' from 'grave' > End of mess

Bug#546836: any information yet?

2009-09-25 Thread Wendy Elmer
On Mon, 2009-09-21 at 20:30 +0200, Brice Goglin wrote: > Brent S. Elmer Ph.D. wrote: > > Any information on this bug yet? Do you need any more information from > > me? > > > > > mga is not really maintained upstream anymore so unless your problem is > obvious, you will have to wait before ge

Bug#546836: any information yet?

2009-09-22 Thread Wendy Elmer
I pointed my deb-src to lenny to get the old xserver-xorg-video-mga. Then I did: apt-get -b source xserver-xorg-video-mga and dpkg -i xserver-xorg-video-mga_1.4.9.dfsg-1_i386.deb to install what was built. If that is what you mean by build against the 1.6 server, then it didn't change anything.

Bug#546836: any information yet?

2009-09-21 Thread Brice Goglin
Brent S. Elmer Ph.D. wrote: > Any information on this bug yet? Do you need any more information from > me? > mga is not really maintained upstream anymore so unless your problem is obvious, you will have to wait before getting a fix. You could try to rebuild the old mga driver against the new

Bug#546836: any information yet?

2009-09-21 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
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Bug#546836: [xserver-xorg-video-mga] black screen when X starts

2009-09-15 Thread Brice Goglin
Brent S. Elmer Ph.D. wrote: > Package: xserver-xorg-video-mga > Version: 1:1.4.11.dfsg-1 > Severity: grave > > --- Please enter the report below this line. --- > I upgraded xserver-xorg... that hit squeeze recently. I also updated > xserver-xorg-video-mga. > When I restarted X, I don't get a gdm

Bug#546836: [xserver-xorg-video-mga] black screen when X starts

2009-09-15 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
Package: xserver-xorg-video-mga Version: 1:1.4.11.dfsg-1 Severity: grave --- Please enter the report below this line. --- I upgraded xserver-xorg... that hit squeeze recently. I also updated xserver-xorg-video-mga. When I restarted X, I don't get a gdm login screen it is just black. I can sti