Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 14:13:23 +0200 From: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@siemens.com> To: Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu> Cc: Barry Irwin <bvi@rucus.ru.ac.za> Subject: Re: Problex with Matrox G450 and XFree86 4.3.0 on 4.8-STABLE Message-ID: <20030522121323.GA24337@curry.mchp.siemens.de> In-Reply-To: <1052638526.652.138.camel@leguin> References: <01b501c3155d$c0397a40$4508a8c0@Beastie> <200305110858.58951.freebsd.nospam@mekanix.dk> <1052638526.652.138.camel@leguin>
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On Sun, 11-May-2003 at 00:35:27 -0700, Eric Anholt wrote: > On Sat, 2003-05-10 at 23:58, Bjarne Wichmann Petersen wrote: > > On Thursday 08 May 2003 14:31, Barry Irwin wrote: > > > > > Any bright ideas. I've had a look at > > > http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/dri/index.html and all seems ane to me. > > > > I'm using G450 as well and followed the above link. I'm not sure mga_hal is a > > must if you want to run drm/dri. It doesn't load here either, and drm > > works... sorta. But I've got a few issues: > > > > 1) drm can only be initialized after a reboot. Any resetting af X after a > > reboot will make drm fail. > > > > 2) *sometimes* drm/dri/opengl doesn't look like it's working properly. Eg. > > sometimes the KDE-screensaver only occupies a *part* of the upper left corner > > (guess it's something like 640x480). > > You don't need mga_hal. On my X site I have: > > The MGA hal is a closed-source hardware access library from > Matrox. XFree86 includes the ability to make a loadable module > using this library to add features to XFree86's Matrox support. > If the loadable module is present it enables TV Out and dualhead > for G400 cards (non-G400 dualhead cards don't need it). If it Is it now possible to use TV Out on non-G400 cards (of course, without the MGA hal module since they don't support these cards) ? -Andre > isn't found, an error message is printed about it being missing > but it's not a problem unless you need these features. > > There's some more that having the mga_hal changes, but I wasn't clear on > what it was. > > I know about the drm not successfully initilizing on the second start of > XFree86. This is something that, afaik, only occurs with KDE. My guess > is that there's something going on with forking that some KDE program > does which confuses the DRM. I made a patch for it, but the one person > who has tested it so far said it didn't help. > > I don't know about #2. > > -- > Eric Anholt eta@lclark.edu > http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/ anholt@FreeBSD.org > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- FreeBSD: We eat penguins for breakfast
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