dear adaplas, could you please take a look at this matroxfb debian bug report: http://bugs.debian.org/347186
On Mon, 09 Jan 2006, Steve Langasek wrote: <snipp> > > > Sigh, can't get a break with alpha kernel support around here. After > > > upgrading to 2.6.14 (from 2.4.27), the Matrox framebuffer no longer works > > > correctly on my alpha with a Matrox Millenium II. The matroxfb_base > > > module > > > loads without error, but gives me corrupt video output only. > > > Try turning off acceleration. > > Doesn't make a difference. > > What did make a difference was, after googling, loading fbcon manually > before loading matroxfb_base. Given that I'm loading matroxfb_base by hand > (/etc/modules), it's not getting loaded via udev or anything like that, it > seems to me that it's my responsibility to load fbcon by hand as well, but > it's still something of an unexpected change from 2.4. It might be nice to > have these modules all autoloaded by something, but it's not strictly > necessary, and some users may not want the framebuffer activated > automatically? > > The other issue (and the first thing I was trying to get work, which led me > to believe the fb was completely broken) is that, even though console works > on the framebuffer now, X does not. This breakage corresponds to the kernel > upgrade, not to any changes in X, so still looks like a kernel bug to me. > > If I turn off "UseFBDev" in my xorg.conf, X displays correctly. I haven't > poked yet to see what this does performance-wise. > > -- > Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS > Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ 2.6.15 has matroxfb patches, did it make a difference on your box? -- maks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
