Allright, I've been trying to take this up with matroxusers, matrox' technical support
people, etc, and I still haven't gotten a straight answer.
Matrox G400 32mb DH card on an up-to-date woody installation, and the most recent
2.4.0-test kernel. The problem described below has appeared for as long as I can
remember. (Relatively early in Branden's phase-2 debs)
DGA display does not want to work. Whenever a program attempts to perform a dga
operation, the video mode changes, but only a blank screen is displayed. Everything
else (sound, input etc) seems to go on, but there's no display whatsoever. Once the
program stops using DGA (or successfully terminates, whatever comes first), the
display becomes usable again as one might expect.
No errors are reported, by the server, nor on the standard output of the program in
question. I've attached my XF86Config-4 file, but I get the impression this isn't
going to help much, and I'll tell you why.
I _can_ get DGA working if I switch to Matrox's now-over-2-month-old driver. The only
problem with this solution is that it's compiled for DRM1, so using it will kill off
my currently working (and very well i should add) GL. I also haven't been able to
extract from matrox any information on when they plan to release updated drivers.
I'm not sure of any other information to add, but if there's something you'd like,
please go ahead and ask. I also cannot confirm whether or not these symptons exhibit
themselves in the current XFree4 CVS. (I'm on a 28.8 modem, and my access to the local
T1 is sporadic). Any comment with respect to that would also be greatly appreciated.
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# XF86Config-4 (XFree86 server configuration file) generated by Dexter, the
# Debian X Configuration tool.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the XF86Config manual page.
# (Type "man XF86Config" at the shell prompt.)
Section "Files"
FontPath "unix/:7100" # local font server
# if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "ddc"
Load "GLcore"
Load "dbe"
Load "dri"
Load "extmod"
Load "glx"
Load "pex5"
Load "record"
Load "xie"
Load "bitmap"
Load "freetype"
Load "speedo"
Load "type1"
Load "vbe"
Load "int10"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Generic Graphics Device"
Driver "mga"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Generic Monitor"
HorizSync 30-85
VertRefresh 50-130
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "Generic Graphics Device"
Monitor "Generic Monitor"
DefaultDepth 16
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen"
InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
InputDevice "Generic Mouse"
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection
# end of XF86Config
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