[Bug 58721] Re: Edgy upgrade breaks multiple Matrox cards
Hello, Running Xubuntu Edgy here. After upgrading to a G550 (AGP, single head DVI), my system suffered:- 1) crash upon display of login window 2) can't even boot the install CD 3) Xfce rodent very dark (black screen) during boot with LCD dropout - No Signal Thank-you Thomas for the FBDev hack which fixed #1. 4) glxgears blank Thank-you John for the recompiled library which fixed #4. Somthing is still wrong though:- 5) flickering display 6) MGA reports VideoRAM: 16384 kByte but card is 32MB 7) MGA reports PixClock max 130 MHz but probe of monitor reports 1200MHz maximum. Problem #7 prevents 75Hz display, which I thought was the cause of the flickering, but it turns out Windows only runs 60Hz but displays beautifully with the drivers from Matrox. In linux, when fsck runs I can see that even the low-res console text is flickering. Edgy includes Xorg 7.1.1 but the installation script for the official Matrox drivers crashes (supports up to version 7.0.0 only). According to the readme file, DVI output requires the proprietary hal driver, so maybe I'm lucky to be seeing anything at all. I am considering downgrading my Xorg to version 7.0.0 until Matrox upgrade their driver or release their source code. [On a side note, is it reasonable to expect Matrox to compile so many drivers? New versions of Xorg seem to come out every few months, compared to Windows every few years, so it's like 10 times the work for 10% of the customers.] -- Edgy upgrade breaks multiple Matrox cards https://launchpad.net/bugs/58721 -- ubuntu-backports mailing list ubuntu-backports@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-backports
[Bug 58721] Re: Edgy upgrade breaks multiple Matrox cards
A very easy work-around is to append vga=795 as a kernel parameter in /boot/grub/menu.lst, e.g. in the line directly after ...ro quiet splash if you have a 1280x1024 display. Take an appropriate other value for a different screen resolution (773 for 1024x768). This enables the frame buffer mode for the mga driver. Unfortunately, this hack does not activate 3D graphics (mga_hal or something like that). This has been tested on a Matrox G450 card and allows you a reasonable xvideo output in VLC. I hope that a new, fixed package xserver-xorg-video-mga will be available soon. -- Edgy upgrade breaks multiple Matrox cards https://launchpad.net/bugs/58721 -- ubuntu-backports mailing list ubuntu-backports@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-backports
[Bug 75895] Re: please backport trac 0.10.2 from feisty to dapper
Same patch can be applied against trac 0.10.3. I'd advise using 0.10.3 as it fixes a couple of important bugs in 0.10.x Steve -- please backport trac 0.10.2 from feisty to dapper https://launchpad.net/bugs/75895 -- ubuntu-backports mailing list ubuntu-backports@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-backports
[Bug 76332] Re: Trac 0.10.3-1 needed in edgy-backports
0.10.3-1 in feisty b/i/(dont know how to test but assumes it will work) under prevu +1 edgy ** Changed in: edgy-backports (upstream) Status: Unconfirmed = Confirmed -- Trac 0.10.3-1 needed in edgy-backports https://launchpad.net/bugs/76332 -- ubuntu-backports mailing list ubuntu-backports@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-backports
[Bug 76382] Re: Backport bzr 0.13-0ubuntu1 from Feisty to Edgy
Yeah, bzr 0.13 does work fine in Edgy... the current packaging won't work for Dapper users though ;-) -- Backport bzr 0.13-0ubuntu1 from Feisty to Edgy https://launchpad.net/bugs/76382 -- ubuntu-backports mailing list ubuntu-backports@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-backports
Re: [Bug 76382] Re: Backport bzr 0.13-0ubuntu1 from Feisty to Edgy
to bad tho dapper could bnefit from it On 12/19/06, John Dong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, bzr 0.13 does work fine in Edgy... the current packaging won't work for Dapper users though ;-) -- Backport bzr 0.13-0ubuntu1 from Feisty to Edgy https://launchpad.net/bugs/76382 -- Backport bzr 0.13-0ubuntu1 from Feisty to Edgy https://launchpad.net/bugs/76382 -- ubuntu-backports mailing list ubuntu-backports@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-backports
