Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:16:27 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: "Bahman M." <b.movaqar@adempiere.org> Cc: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: New data. (Was: Re: xorg driver bug) Message-ID: <20071015211627.GA55530@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20071016001753.5d510827@attila> References: <20071015053710.GA48887@thought.org> <20071015180402.GB54185@thought.org> <20071016001753.5d510827@attila>
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On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 12:17:53AM +0330, Bahman M. wrote:
> On 2007-10-15 Gary Kline wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 10:37:10PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> > > Guys,
> > >
> > > Has anybody with any Dell run into this before? I just got
> > > a new Matrox with 32M of video ram. Run with the "mga" driver, X
> > > comes up extremely dark. If I change the driver to the "vesa" X
> > > comes up with normal brightness but the resolution is terrible. At
> > > most 640x480. tHis could be a hardware bug;I'm hoping it is
> > > just not having selected the right driver.
> > >
> > > Anybody know what to try next?
> > >
> >
> > Update, and no-joy: i've added Modes lines, tried different
> > flags. Still, using the "mga" drivr gives a dark screen; only the
> > "vesa" works. none of the xorg config toools work. The Matroc
> > Millennium G450 is brand new, so doubt it's the card. The previous
> > card had the same problem--way to dark--soI got this new card.
> >
> Some years ago, I had some similar problem with a Vistac monitor using
> nVidia (on Linux). I found that it was the monitor not doing well in
> some resolutions or colour depths. Changing the monitor solved the
> problem.
>
> I'd suggest you try with another monitor and see if it works.
It *could* be my CRT but it works on my 3 other KVM'd platforms
flawlessly. Besides, the reason I bought the new G450 was
because the exact same thing was happening with my other v-card.
I tried "mga" and gathered the following data from the failure
dump. [[X did work, but there was this huge, dark band a
couple inches from the top (where the display was much lightr)
and after the drk middle band, the display was also light toward
the bottom.
Here is what I found after I did a shutdown now:
Requesting insufficient memory window!: start 0xfd800000 to 0x7efffff size 0x2000000
(EE) Cannnot find empty range to map base to
(II) Module "ramdac" already built-in
(EE) [drm] drmOpen failed
(EE) DRM(0) [dm] DRMScreenInit failed . Disabling DRI
Does this ring a bell among anybody who is familiar with xorg?
My thinking now is that something is wrong with the video on the
m'board; that both this new G50 and the last card were all right.
Any thoughts?
thanks,
>
> HTH,
>
> Bahman
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