Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 10:22:24 -0500 From: Glenn Johnson <glennpj@charter.net> 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: <20030511152224.GA1028@gforce.johnson.home> 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, 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
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