From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 20 23:17:10 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB60816A41F for ; Sun, 20 May 2007 23:17:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cmt@burggraben.net) Received: from smtp.burggraben.net (ns.haidundneu23.net [213.133.108.24]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A811D13C46C for ; Sun, 20 May 2007 23:17:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cmt@burggraben.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.burggraben.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5496E345CC for ; Mon, 21 May 2007 00:47:01 +0200 (CEST) X-Spam-Scanned: by amavisd-new at haidundneu23.net Received: from smtp.burggraben.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ns.haidundneu23.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id fLn4lgfbV9Mv for ; Mon, 21 May 2007 00:46:58 +0200 (CEST) Received: from storage.haidundneu23.net (p54A3EC7A.dip.t-dialin.net [84.163.236.122]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "storage.haidundneu23.net", Issuer "Christoph Moench-Tegeder" (verified OK)) by smtp.burggraben.net (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Mon, 21 May 2007 00:46:58 +0200 (CEST) Received: from elch.haidundneu23.net (elch.haidundneu23.net [10.0.42.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "elch.haidundneu23.net", Issuer "Christoph Moench-Tegeder" (verified OK)) by storage.haidundneu23.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85F6D1819B4 for ; Mon, 21 May 2007 00:47:13 +0200 (CEST) Received: by elch.haidundneu23.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D09FCC0C3; Mon, 21 May 2007 00:47:02 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 00:47:02 +0200 From: Christoph Moench-Tegeder To: freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <20070520224702.GB19584@elch.haidundneu23.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline X-PGP-Key: RSA/2048 0xB816EBBD X-PGP-Fingerprint: 89 2E 6D 05 95 B8 D7 1F 7C 1D C3 1E 95 A0 9B 5D X-GPG: supported User-Agent: mutt-ng/devel-r804 (FreeBSD) Cc: Subject: Hint for owners of Matrx G550 cards using Xorg 7.2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 23:17:11 -0000 Hi, for those die-hard Matrox users out there (my card is a G550): To use mga_hal with the new X server, unpack matrox_driver-x86_32-4.4.0.tar.gz (or matrox_driver-x86_64-4.4.0.tar.gz, in case of amd64) (do "make extract" in x11-servers/mga_hal) and copy matrox_driver-x86_32-4.4.0/xserver/7.0.0/mga_{hal_,}drv.so to /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers (don't forget to back up mga_drv.so). >From now on, start your X server with "-ignoreABI", e.g. xdm users edit /usr/local/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers nd add the mentioned option to the X server command line. Without mga_hal, I do not get any signal to my monitor via DVI, but now fvwm is up and running. Thanks to the "Unofficial Matrox Support Forum" hosted at http://matrox.tuxx-home.at/. If this is not considered a "trivial fix", I will write a PR tomorrow. Regards, Christoph -- Spare Space