Re: Matrox G550 mga driver hangs system

2017-04-03 Thread Tony Stoneley
Felix Miata wrote on Fri, 31 Mar 2017 18:17:09 -0400 >...So, a bug filing is apparently needed. I'd like you to file it OK, with great trepidation I've sent a report to the Debian Bug Tracking System, and received automatic acknowledgement of it as Bug#859423. Those interested should follow

Re: Matrox G550 + mga driver hangs system

2017-04-02 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 9:36 AM, Tony Stoneley wrote: > > A severely trimmed version of /var/log/Xorg.0.log follows. The whole > affair is 616 lines, which seems excessive for an initial posting. > This is with the fully up-to-date testing distribution, in particular > with

Re: Matrox G550 mga driver hangs system

2017-04-01 Thread Felix Miata
I uninstalled tdm-trinity, kept iomem=relaxed on cmdline, blacklisted mga, and rebuilt initrd. That got Xorg to run TDE and IcwWM via startx. Then I reinstalled tdm-trinity, and its greeter now behaves as expected. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are

Re: Matrox G550 mga driver hangs system

2017-03-31 Thread Felix Miata
Tony Stoneley composed on 2017-03-31 22:20 (UTC+0100): Felix Miata wrote on Fri, 31 Mar 2017 02:22:10 -0400 It may be time for you to ask for help from the devs, using the debian-devel mailing list or one of the freedesktop.org Xorg mailing lists, or by filing a Debian bug. Yes, perhaps,

Re: Matrox G550 mga driver hangs system

2017-03-31 Thread Tony Stoneley
Felix Miata wrote on Fri, 31 Mar 2017 02:22:10 -0400 >Your goal is to boot without Plymouth and without framebuffer, in >80x25 mode, to give Xorg the best possible chance to work as expect. >If Plymouth is installed, purge it. > >To proceed, hit the e key when the Grub menu appears, then

Re: Matrox G550 mga driver hangs system

2017-03-31 Thread Felix Miata
Felix Miata composed on 2017-03-31 02:22 (UTC-0400): [xserver-xorg-video-mga is a user-space graphics driver] ... If all the above doesn't help, repeat it, but append "iomem=relaxed" to the line that included video and/or vesa and/or vga... This showed up on vtty when I did dist-upgrade from

Re: Matrox G550 mga driver hangs system

2017-03-31 Thread Felix Miata
Tony Stoneley composed on 2017-03-30 17:12 (UTC+0100): Felix Miata wrote on Wed, 29 Mar 2017 16:44:01 -0400 https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/03/msg00895.html Did you try other things suggested in that thread or the openSUSE bug referenced there

Re: Matrox G550 mga driver hangs system

2017-03-30 Thread Tony Stoneley
Felix Miata wrote on Wed, 29 Mar 2017 16:44:01 -0400 >> https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/03/msg00895.html >Did you try other things suggested in that thread or the openSUSE bug >referenced there >https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1004453 ? To be honest, I'm way out of my

Re: Matrox G550 + mga driver hangs system

2017-03-30 Thread Felix Miata
I tried to net install Stretch to my MGA550 machine, but kept getting segfaults trying to configure network. So I restored a backup image of Jessie from another machine to my MGA550 machine. It worked normally, so I dist-upgraded it to Stretch on vtty 3. When done, I logged into :1 using startx

Re: Matrox G550 mga driver hangs system

2017-03-29 Thread Felix Miata
Tony Stoneley composed on 2017-03-29 20:28 (UTC+0100): Felix Miata suggested https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/03/msg00895.html Thanks, Felix, but I had already seen that and tried it, to no great effect. I should have said so. Except that I see the log I filed doesn't say so. Here

Re: Matrox G550 + mga driver hangs system

2017-03-29 Thread Tony Stoneley
to...@tuxteam.de wrote on Wed, 29 Mar 2017 16:29:52 +0200 >is the system totally dead or just the display? Can you ping (or even >ssh) your box? In case you have no network, the effort of setting one >up (locally) might well pay off. I wish I could, but alas I only have one PC here, albeit on a

Re: Matrox G550 mga driver hangs system

2017-03-29 Thread Tony Stoneley
Felix Miata suggested https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/03/msg00895.html Thanks, Felix, but I had already seen that and tried it, to no great effect. I should have said so. Except that I see the log I filed doesn't say so. Here is (part of) one that does, and fails similarly- [

Re: Matrox G550 + mga driver hangs system

2017-03-29 Thread Felix Miata
Tony Stoneley composed on 2017-03-29 14:36 (UTC+0100): I'm trying an experimental upgrade from stable to testing on an elderly system with a Matrox Millenium G550 graphics adaptor plugged directly into the motherboard, using the mga driver, and have run into a brick wall with the xserver. When

Re: Matrox G550 + mga driver hangs system

2017-03-29 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 02:36:55PM +0100, Tony Stoneley wrote: > I'm trying an experimental upgrade from stable to testing on an > elderly system with a Matrox Millenium G550 graphics adaptor plugged > directly into the motherboard, using the mga

Matrox G550 + mga driver hangs system

2017-03-29 Thread Tony Stoneley
I'm trying an experimental upgrade from stable to testing on an elderly system with a Matrox Millenium G550 graphics adaptor plugged directly into the motherboard, using the mga driver, and have run into a brick wall with the xserver. When started, eg with startx, the system immediately freezes