The whole story with Matrox cards and XFree86 is weird. On one of my machines I still run Xfree86 4.0.1, and as long as I don't use too high a resolution I can use framebuffer consoles and X11. On another machine running 4.1 I cannot use framebuffers at any resolution without X clobbering console access. However with 4.01 I cannot get an AGP setting of higher than 2X without a system crash. With 4.1 I can set it to 4X without any problem. Since I don't use 3D really I will live with older versions of XFree86 since I find the framebuffers much more comfortable for my eyesight. However, some day someone will work this out no doubt. The "official" line from Suse btw is don't use frame buffers with Matrox cards. -- Regards Cliff On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 11:01:01AM +0300, Jaakko Tamminen wrote:
Hi
I have Matrox G450 dual-head, and had similar problem.
Mine was cured by placing the vga=normal to lilo.conf.
I'm not sure if I have framebuffer. If it must be enabled somewhere, the I don't have it. Just did install 7.2, updated to latest XFree-86 and KDE 3 weeks ago, and configured the system with SaX2, and everything has been working since.
Jaska.
still green. The monitor's power-LED is amber if the monitor lacks signal or is in suspend-mode. The system has APM disabled, so that's not disturbing.
What can this be?
What video card are you using ? Are you using frame-buffer consoles ? The combination of some cards (such as the one I own a Matrox) and framebuffers don't go together well.
I am using a Matrox G400. I have the the line vga=normal in /etc/lilo.conf.
Best regards, David List