From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 11 08:22:26 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F7B737B401 for ; Sun, 11 May 2003 08:22:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from remt19.cluster1.charter.net (remt19.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.8.29]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 889CB43F3F for ; Sun, 11 May 2003 08:22:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from glennpj@charter.net) Received: from [24.158.214.251] (HELO gforce.johnson.home) by remt19.cluster1.charter.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.0.6) with ESMTP id 25845356; Sun, 11 May 2003 11:22:24 -0400 Received: from gforce.johnson.home (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gforce.johnson.home (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h4BFMOnR002020; Sun, 11 May 2003 10:22:24 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from glenn@gforce.johnson.home) Received: (from glenn@localhost) by gforce.johnson.home (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h4BFMOUU002019; Sun, 11 May 2003 10:22:24 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from glenn) From: Glenn Johnson Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 10:22:24 -0500 To: Eric Anholt Message-ID: <20030511152224.GA1028@gforce.johnson.home> Mail-Followup-To: Eric Anholt , Bjarne Wichmann Petersen , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Barry Irwin References: <01b501c3155d$c0397a40$4508a8c0@Beastie> <200305110858.58951.freebsd.nospam@mekanix.dk> <1052638526.652.138.camel@leguin> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1052638526.652.138.camel@leguin> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org cc: Barry Irwin Subject: Re: Problex with Matrox G450 and XFree86 4.3.0 on 4.8-STABLE X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 15:22:26 -0000 On Sun, May 11, 2003 at 12:35:27AM -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 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 think it is also needed to support flat panel displays. -- Glenn Johnson glennpj@charter.net