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Re: [SLE] Matrox G400 and Suse 7.3 woes
- From: Jason Poynting <jpoynting@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 23:59:22 +0000 (GMT)
- Message-id: <20011127235922.23089.qmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
--- Philipp Thomas <philippt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I don't know for sure, but if a kernel without framebuffer doesn't
> help, I'd
> suspect the Matrox HAL-Lib, which is a binary only library. If you need
> neither
> the DVI support nor dual head support, I'd try compiling XFree86, or
> more
> specifically the mga driver, without the Matrox HAL library.
I disabled both the HAL library and the framebuffer in the kernel.
Neither helped. What fixed it was adding:
append="disableapic"
to lilo.conf. It's now working fine with the HAL switched off, but with
the standard Suse kernel with framebuffer switched on.
Jason
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> I don't know for sure, but if a kernel without framebuffer doesn't
> help, I'd
> suspect the Matrox HAL-Lib, which is a binary only library. If you need
> neither
> the DVI support nor dual head support, I'd try compiling XFree86, or
> more
> specifically the mga driver, without the Matrox HAL library.
I disabled both the HAL library and the framebuffer in the kernel.
Neither helped. What fixed it was adding:
append="disableapic"
to lilo.conf. It's now working fine with the HAL switched off, but with
the standard Suse kernel with framebuffer switched on.
Jason
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