Hi fellow Matrox users,
Maybe I can help in reporting your problems to Matrox.
Can you give me some more info as to XFree 86 version
and Matrox driver version?
-Rahul
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I experienced lost of the signal when switching from X to the console
when booting with vga=ext or some of the graphic modes. It was reported
here that the problem was the Matrox drivers.
Recently, with kernel 2.4.4+ and XFree 4.0.3 (@1280x1024/head)+ Matrox
drivers (http://matrox.com/mga/support
Hi, thanks for confirming this. But if it's Matrox's code (we are
talking about the mga_hal_drv.o module for X, correct?) then the ball
is in their court. Has anyone reported this to them so that they can
fix it?
Cheers,
Chris
> On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 12:24:50AM +0200, Ben Twijnstra wrote:
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Hi Chris,
Seen the same behaviour; you're not alone. I'm running XF86 4.0.3 with a G400. My
guess is that mga_drv goes into some local loop while trying to restore the display.
mga_drv at that moment has I/O privileges and if it hangs, Linux hangs too.
Grtz,
Ben
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> out the Matrox-supplied mga_drv.o and mga_hal_drv.o modules and
> replace them with the ones from the standard X 4.03 distribution, but
> these are userspace objects and shouldn't be capable of bringing the
> kernel down. (Like I said, the machine can't even be pinged.)
Not really. The matrox c
REF: Linux 2.4.5, 2.4.4, 2.4.3 (and probably earlier);
devfs;
SMP (dual PIII);
< 1GB main memory
Hi,
Has anyone noticed their Linux box lock up hard (as in cannot even be
pinged from the local network) when switching from a text vc to a vc
running X? This has happened for me even
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