On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, B. Levin wrote:
> I have a dual dvi (special version, sort of) matrox g550. many times when I
> startx it seems to hang for a minute and then you eventually get video.
>
> (not sure if its related or random but when I startx as root I -think- it
> starts faster, but I might be wrong.)
>
> and the startup time after a fresh coldstart seems to be different than a warm
> restart. maybe there are some modes set in the card that cause confusion after
> X exits and restarts again, later on?
>
> at any rate, it seems that there's some vesa probing going on and it takes a
> long time to learn the modes before starting X.
There are 3 ways of trying to get the monitor info out of a G550.
With 4.2 the mga driver didn't actually try the third method when starting
the server (it was only used by X -configure) so although 4.3 wont speed
things up it will at least end up by getting the data.
With 4.2 or 4.3 try putting the following into *both* Device sections
of your config file:
Option "noDDC1"
Option "noDDC2"
In my experience these two don't provide info from DVI monitors,
so disabling them should speed things up without losing you anything.
--
Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge
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