Bug#362997: dual head on PCI G450 fails
I just upgraded my (old) computer with its G450 to unstable and am unable to get a dual head configuration to work. The driver available under unstable is 1:1.4.9.dfsg-1 and in experimental 1:1.4.9.dfsg-2 (1.19.100.dfsg.1-1 for kfreebsd architectures). I will try a more recent version if it could be uploaded to experimental (I have RandR 1.2 dual head working on another computer with xserver-xorg-video-radeon.) Thank you Alan On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 12:49:36AM +0200, Brice Goglin wrote: Hi, I just uploaded xserver-xorg-video-mga 1.9.99.dfsg.1-1 to experimental. It brings RandR 1.2 support, which improves mode detection and dynamic configuration. Could you test it and see whether it helps for your dual-head problem on G450. Note that you might need to update your xorg.conf, see the pointers I inserted in http://bgoglin.livejournal.com/12835.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#362997: Dual head on PCI G450 fails
Hi, I just uploaded xserver-xorg-video-mga 1.9.99.dfsg.1-1 to experimental. It brings RandR 1.2 support, which improves mode detection and dynamic configuration. Could you test it and see whether it helps for your dual-head problem on G450. Note that you might need to update your xorg.conf, see the pointers I inserted in http://bgoglin.livejournal.com/12835.html Thanks, Brice -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#362997: dual head on PCI G450 fails
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 11:08:06AM +0200, Brice Goglin wrote: Hi, About a year ago, you reported a bug to the Debian BTS regarding dual-head failing on a MGA G450 board. Did you reproduce this problem recently? With Xorg/Etch? with the latest driver in unstable? If not, I will close this bug in the next weeks. This problem is still unresolved. Did you actually look at it or do you assume the problem magically disappeared ? Cheers, Peter. -- Goa is a state of mind -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#362997: dual head on PCI G450 fails
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 11:08:06AM +0200, Brice Goglin wrote: Hi, About a year ago, you reported a bug to the Debian BTS regarding dual-head failing on a MGA G450 board. Did you reproduce this problem recently? With Xorg/Etch? with the latest driver in unstable? If not, I will close this bug in the next weeks. This problem is still unresolved. Did you actually look at it or do you assume the problem magically disappeared ? I didn't look at it, I don't have any MGA board. The MGA driver you were using at this time has changed a lot compared to the one in unstable nowadays, so I hoped it would have been fixed in the meantime. I don't see any report with your symptoms on bugzilla.freedesktop.org. [1] reports problems on the second head, but does not seem to have any problem with the first head. We might want to open a new bug report there then. Brice [1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2779 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#362997: dual head on PCI G450 fails
Hi, About a year ago, you reported a bug to the Debian BTS regarding dual-head failing on a MGA G450 board. Did you reproduce this problem recently? With Xorg/Etch? with the latest driver in unstable? If not, I will close this bug in the next weeks. Thanks, Brice -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#362997: dual head on PCI G450 fails
Package: xserver-xorg-video-mga Version: 1:1.2.1.3.dfsg.1-2 Severity: important Dual head operation on a PCI G450 fails. The first screen is not initialized properly. The result is an incorrect video signal on the first port. This likely has to do with mga driver not being able to read the BIOS for the correct timing parameters. For a single head configuration, the UseFBDev parameter can be used. This option causes the mga driver to use the kernel fb device for mode switching and mmapping of video memory and accelerator registers instead of directly going to the hardware. For a dual head configuration this does not work because the mga driver tries to resolve the fb /dev entry by only looking at the PCI ID. As the PCI ID is the same for both screens, the mga driver will use the same fb device for both screens which obviously results in chaos :-). A working solution is to add an fbdev option which allows specifying the fb /dev entry for each screen. It's probably adviseable to always use the fb interface instead of trying to mess around with mmapping the BIOS directly. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.11.7 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages xserver-xorg-video-mga depends on: ii libc6 2.3.6-5GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii xserver-xorg-core 1:1.0.2-4 X.Org X server -- core server xserver-xorg-video-mga recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
