Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-xorg (15 mails)

[Joerg Bruehe <joerg.bruehe@xxxxxx>]

Hi Peter, Stefan, all!


Your problem reminds me of the issues I had with my MGA 450 when
installing SuSE 10.3 where 9.3 had worked fine:
A dual-head configuration, one of the screens rotated, didn't work
because the X server crashed (see my mail to this list on 2008-05-26).


Peter Riess wrote:
> Hi Stefan,
>
> thanks for the quick answer
>
> Stefan Dirsch schrieb:
> > Sounds like one of the following known bugs
> >
> >   #441070 - mga: Xinerama broken since xorg-server 1.5 (G450/G550)
> >   #210988 - mga: Xserver hangs in int10 with two DH Matrox G550 cards
> >
> > No solution known at the moment. :-(

I solved my issue by installing a driver from Matrox, this is how it
shows up in "/var/log/Xorg.0.log":

  (II) LoadModule: "mga"
  (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules//drivers/mga_drv.so
  (II) Module mga: vendor="Matrox Graphics Inc. - x86_32 - Release v4.4.0"
          compiled for 7.1.1, module version = 1.4.1
          Module class: X.Org Video Driver
          ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 1.0
  ...
  (II) MGA: driver for Matrox chipsets: mga2064w, mga1064sg, mga2164w,
          mga2164w AGP, mgag100, mgag100 PCI, mgag200, mgag200 PCI,
          mgag200 SE A PCI, mgag200 SE B PCI, mgag400, mgag550
  ...
  (II) Loading sub module "mga_hal"
  (II) LoadModule: "mga_hal"
  (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules//drivers/mga_hal_drv.so
  (II) Module mga_hal: vendor="Matrox Graphics Inc. - x86_32 - Release
v4.4.0"
          compiled for 7.1.1, module version = 1.0.0
          ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 1.0

I downloaded this file from Matrox: matroxdriver_mga-x86_32-4.4.3.tar.gz

Sadly, I didn't keep exact notes (URL, commands, ...), but I remember I
saved the original "mga_drv.so", copied the extracted one to its place,
and started X.


> do you have a proposal
>
> - use a X-Server 1.4.x with SuSE 11.1
> - re-install SuSE 11.0
> - work with 11.1 in Single Screen mode and wait for a fix in the hope a
> fix is not waiting too long?

IMHO, waiting is no good idea if you want (maybe: need) to use your two
screens.
(For me, this would be critical, as I use the machine for work from home
and really need the dual head setup.)

In my case, the hardware and the configuration had worked fine with SuSE
9.3 but failed with 10.3. Luckily, I had not upgraded (or replaced) my
9.3 installation by 10.3 but rather ran them dual-boot, so I had (and
still have, until I upgrade again) the old one working while trying to
fix the new one.
(Both "/home" and my real work data are on separate partitions, mounted
from both installations.)

After this experience, I try to run dual-boot on all my machines (with
current disks, sufficient space shouldn't be an issue any more).


Maybe that Matrox file works for you, too ?


Regards and HTH,
Jörg

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Joerg Bruehe  - persoenliche Aeusserung / speaking only for himself
mailto:joerg.bruehe@xxxxxx

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