Re: XOrg in Debian10/Buster not usable with AMD Duron / Matrox G400

2019-08-14 Thread Markus Hiereth
Hello Felix and Xorg team Felix Miata schrieb am 10. August 2019 um 23:00 > > As I annonced, I made an > > attempt with disabled DRI option for the video card, i.e. I introduced > > > Option "DRI" "False" > I suppose DRI support is supposed to be auto-detected but maybe is > not working as

Re: XOrg in Debian10/Buster not usable with AMD Duron / Matrox G400

2019-08-14 Thread Markus Hiereth
Hello Felix and X server experts first of all: Thank You for the logfile. According to the selected strings from the card's BIOS ... # selected strings from video BIOS dump IBM COMPATIBLE MATROX/Matrox G400 VGA/VBE BIOS (V2.1) b35 MATROX POWER GRAPHICS ACCELERATOR MGA Series

Re: XOrg in Debian10/Buster not usable with AMD Duron / Matrox G400

2019-08-14 Thread Markus Hiereth
Hello Felix and Xorg team, Felix Miata schrieb am 10. August 2019 um 21:55 > I have no /usr/local/lib/xorg/* here, nor any idea how to explain my > mga_drv.so reporting compiled for 1.20.3. There is minimal > corruption here at window and panel edges, but it doesn't interfere > with normal use.

Re: XOrg in Debian10/Buster not usable with AMD Duron / Matrox G400

2019-08-14 Thread Markus Hiereth
Hello Felix, could You send a Xorg.log - file that allows a comparison of the startup procedures of the X server on your and on my system. Best regards Markus ___ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg In

Re: XOrg in Debian10/Buster not usable with AMD Duron / Matrox G400

2019-08-11 Thread Felix Miata
Markus Hiereth composed on 2019-08-11 22:05 (UTC+0200): ... I was able to replicate the (EE) tail of your attached log via an /etc/X11/xorg.conf file containing the following: Section "Monitor ... DefaultDepth16 ... EndSection Commenting away De

Re: XOrg in Debian10/Buster not usable with AMD Duron / Matrox G400

2019-08-10 Thread Felix Miata
Markus Hiereth composed on 2019-08-10 22:27 (UTC+0200): > [ 3974.700] (II) MGA(0): VESA VBE DDC supported > [ 3974.700] (II) MGA(0): VESA VBE DDC Level none > [ 3974.700] (II) MGA(0): VESA VBE DDC transfer in appr. 0 sec. > [ 3974.844] (II) MGA(0): VESA VBE DDC read failed I spotted another u

Re: XOrg in Debian10/Buster not usable with AMD Duron / Matrox G400

2019-08-10 Thread Felix Miata
Markus Hiereth composed on 2019-08-10 22:27 (UTC+0200): > Felix Miata schrieb am 10. August 2019 um 21:55 > As I annonced, I made an > attempt with disabled DRI option for the video card, i.e. I introduced > Option "DRI" "False" I suppose DRI support is supposed to be auto-detected but mayb

Re: XOrg in Debian10/Buster not usable with AMD Duron / Matrox G400

2019-08-10 Thread Felix Miata
Markus Hiereth composed on 2019-08-10 20:24 (UTC+0200): > Your mga module was compiled for another version of the server: > 66c80 >> (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/mga_drv.so > < (II) Loading /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/mga_drv.so > 68c82,88 > < compiled for 1.20.4, module

Re: XOrg in Debian10/Buster not usable with AMD Duron / Matrox G400

2019-08-09 Thread Felix Miata
Markus Hiereth composed on 2019-08-09 11:35 (UTC+0200): > could You send a Xorg.log - file that allows a comparison of the > startup procedures of the X server on your and on my system. http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/Xorg/Mga/xorg.0.log-mga400-deb10-201908090655-0400 -- Evolution as taught in p

Re: XOrg in Debian10/Buster not usable with AMD Duron / Matrox G400

2019-08-05 Thread Markus Hiereth
Hello Marius, Adam and Xorg-Team, for Marius: with some delay, I noticed Your hint to create debugging packages in Debian. I Think I compiled the X server and the mga module successfully, but I doubt whether the files are installed correctly. E.g. the dates of the binaries are not in accordance w

Re: XOrg in Debian10/Buster not usable with AMD Duron / Matrox G400

2019-08-02 Thread Markus Hiereth
Hello Xorg-Team, yesterday, I managed to update the VGA BIOS of the graphic card (using FreeDOS which was, in contrast to Microsoft DOS 6.2, able to execute the ubiosdos file from the Matrox utilities) recommended by Felix and as well updated the main board BIOS. This did not solve the problem. T

Re: XOrg in Debian10/Buster not usable with AMD Duron / Matrox G400

2019-07-31 Thread Markus Hiereth
Hallo xorg Team, thanks for Your hints so far, but the problem still remains. @ Dennis I managed to compile the source package http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xserver-xorg-video-mga/xserver-xorg-video-mga_2.0.0.orig.tar.gz It was necessary to replace xserver-xorg by xserver-xorg-d

XOrg in Debian10/Buster not usable with AMD Duron / Matrox G400

2019-07-29 Thread Markus Hiereth
Felix Miata mrmazda at earthlink.net wrote on Tue Jul 23 02:23:17 UTC 2019 > Which BIOS version does your G400 have? I upgraded mine to 2.1 about > 10 years ago. I have the software that did the upgrade if you need > it. It doesn't seem available from matrox.com any more. > http://fm.no-ip.com/Tm

Re: XOrg in Debian10/Buster not usable with AMD Duron / Matrox G400

2019-07-23 Thread Markus Hiereth
Hello Adam, Adam Jackson schrieb am 22. Juli 2019 um 20:22 > > apparently I am able to run gdb locally on my computer. > The reason I mentioned ssh is: if you start X under gdb from the > console, the X server will switch away to a new virtual terminal while > it initializes. Then, when it c

Re: XOrg in Debian10/Buster not usable with AMD Duron / Matrox G400

2019-07-23 Thread Markus Hiereth
Hallo Adam > installing the openssh-server - package made no problem. So I was able > to invoke gdb from my backup computer via ssh. > > gdb /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg > > and within gdb > > run > > introduced an attempt to start the X server. The logging is attached. > I do not know whether it c

Re: XOrg in Debian10/Buster not usable with AMD Duron / Matrox G400

2019-07-22 Thread Felix Miata
Markus Hiereth composed on 2019-07-16 11:05 (UTC+0200): ... I have Buster working with P4 and G400 mostly OK here. xrandr --dpi 120 cannot get size of gamma for output default. # dpkg-query -l | grep mga ii xserver-xorg-video-mga 1:2.0.0-1 i386 X.Org X server -- MGA display driver # inxi -GxxSa

Re: XOrg in Debian10/Buster not usable with AMD Duron / Matrox G400

2019-07-22 Thread Adam Jackson
On Sun, 2019-07-21 at 23:05 +0200, Markus Hiereth wrote: > > > If you have a second machine, can you try to launch Xorg from gdb? You > > will need to ssh into the machine and su to root first, but gdb is > > generally much better at decoding backtraces than either glibc's > > backtrace function o

Re: XOrg in Debian10/Buster not usable with AMD Duron / Matrox G400

2019-07-22 Thread Marius Gedminas
On Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 11:05:35PM +0200, Markus Hiereth wrote: > > Missing separate debuginfos, use: dnf debuginfo-install > > xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.20.4-3.fc30.x86_64 > > The command and the package You mention seems to be related to > rpm. Is there an equivalent package for the Debian package

Re: XOrg in Debian10/Buster not usable with AMD Duron / Matrox G400

2019-07-22 Thread Markus Hiereth
Hello Adam, Adam Jackson schrieb am 19. Juli 2019 um 19:53 > Hmph. The log shows the server mostly initializing correctly, and > doesn't give the details about the location of the crash I was hoping > for. I don't expect the MTRR setup failures are what's fatal here > though. > If you have a se

Re: XOrg in Debian10/Buster not usable with AMD Duron / Matrox G400

2019-07-19 Thread Adam Jackson
On Thu, 2019-07-18 at 11:11 +0200, Markus Hiereth wrote: > Hello Adam, > > Adam Jackson schrieb am 17. Juli 2019 um 17:06 > > > Try this again, but invoke the server as 'Xorg -verbose' so we can see > > the complete set of messages being printed. > > I made some more tests but I am not able to

Re: XOrg in Debian10/Buster not usable with AMD Duron / Matrox G400

2019-07-17 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2019-07-16 at 11:05 +0200, Markus Hiereth wrote: > root@lune:~# Xorg > > X.Org X Server 1.20.4 > X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 > Build Operating System: Linux 4.9.0-8-amd64 i686 Debian > Current Operating System: Linux lune 4.19.0-5-686 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.37-5 > (2019-06-19) i686 > K

Re: XOrg in Debian10/Buster not usable with AMD Duron / Matrox G400

2019-07-16 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 7/16/19 5:05 AM, Markus Hiereth wrote: Hello, I updated my PC with Debian 10 which contains the package xserver-xorg-core 2:1.20.4-1. I also have a very old machine still running fine. It also has a Matrox graphics PCI card and one must compile the driver for that from the sources. At leas

XOrg in Debian10/Buster not usable with AMD Duron / Matrox G400

2019-07-16 Thread Markus Hiereth
Hello, I updated my PC with Debian 10 which contains the package xserver-xorg-core 2:1.20.4-1. As productive system, I still use Debian 8 on the same (dual boot) machine which works fine. The PC is quite old, has an AMD Duron processor and a Matrox G400 card. Attemps to start the X-Windows-Syst