On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 18:12:31 +0100 (BST), Andrew C Aitchison
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> On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Klaus Dittrich wrote:
> 
> > I put all noDDC options in the server flags and in both
> > monitor options as well.
> > But nothing helped, the hangs still happen.
> >
> > According to the log file (excerpt appended) the module
> > DDC is loaded and I2C bus "DDC P1" is initialized _before_
> > the options get recognized.
> 
> I'm seeing this on my G550-DVI-VGA now.
> 
> DDC P1 is part of Ryan Underwood's G400 Maven changes for the DDC support
> on the second head, but I'm discovering that this doesn't appear to work
> on G550s.
> 
> Does anyone know whether the G550 has a Maven "chip" ?

no.  it doesn't.  The second dac was integrated on the g540 and later models,

> If so we need to try to get it to work;
> if not we should disable this on the G550.
> 
> If I understand correctly, Ryan's change is intended to allow full
> feature support for the Dual head G400 (and G450 ?) *without* using
> Matrox's HAL.

It's a start it that direction.  all it does right now is fix DDC and
DPMS on the second of G400s.  The code to actually set up the mode on
the maven is still missing.

> I still can't get dual head on G550 to work without HAL, so DDC support
> is moot.

It should work without HAL.  I had it working on my G550 (dvi + vga) a
while back.

Alex

> 
> > So if the hang occurs during this initialisation there is
> > nothing to expect from the change.
> >
> > Is there an extended logging/debuging possible to find out what
> > really happens?
> >
> > The logs using DDC, after the hang, always looked fine. None of the
> > problems you described exhibited in the log files with both g550
> > variants.
> >
> > --
> > Klaus
> > ..
> > (II) LoadModule: "mga_hal"
> > (II) Loading /usr/local/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/mga_hal_drv.o
> > (II) Module mga_hal: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
> >     compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 1.0.0
> >     ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.6
> > (==) MGA(0): Matrox HAL module used
> > (**) MGA(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
> > (==) MGA(0): RGB weight 888
> > (**) MGA(0): Option "HWcursor" "Off"
> > (**) MGA(0): Option "PciRetry" "On"
> > (**) MGA(0): Option "Crtc2Half" "On"
> > (**) MGA(0): Option "AGPMode" "4"
> > (**) MGA(0): Option "DigitalScreen1" "Yes"
> > (**) MGA(0): Using AGP 4x mode
> > (**) MGA(0): PCI retry enabled
> > (--) MGA(0): Linear framebuffer at 0xFC000000
> > (--) MGA(0): MMIO registers at 0xF0100000
> > (--) MGA(0): Pseudo-DMA transfer window at 0xF0800000
> > (==) MGA(0): BIOS at 0xC0000
> > (--) MGA(0): Video BIOS info block at offset 0x07CE0
> > (WW) MGA(0): Video BIOS info block not detected!
> > (II) MGA(0): MGABios.RamdacType = 0x0
> > (==) MGA(0): Write-combining range (0xfc000000,0x2000000)
> > (**) MGA(0): Crtc2 will use 16384K of VideoRam
> > (--) MGA(0): VideoRAM: 16384 kByte
> > (II) Loading sub module "ddc"
> > (II) LoadModule: "ddc"
> > (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libddc.a
> > (II) Module ddc: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
> >     compiled for 4.4.99.13, module version = 1.0.0
> >     ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.7
> > (II) Loading sub module "i2c"
> > (II) LoadModule: "i2c"
> > (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libi2c.a
> > (II) Module i2c: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
> >     compiled for 4.4.99.13, module version = 1.2.0
> >     ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.7
> > (==) MGA(0): Write-combining range (0xfc000000,0x1000000)
> > (II) MGA(0): vgaHWGetIOBase: hwp->IOBase is 0x03d0, hwp->PIOOffset is 0x0000
> > (II) MGA(0): I2C bus "DDC P1" initialized.
> > (**) MGA(0): Option "NoDDC1"
> > (**) MGA(0): Option "NoDDC"
> > (II) MGA(0): I2C Monitor info: (nil)
> > (II) MGA(0): end of I2C Monitor info
> > (II) MGA(0): DDC Monitor info: (nil)
> > (II) MGA(0): end of DDC Monitor info
> > (II) Loading sub module "vbe"
> > (II) LoadModule: "vbe"
> > ..
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