I have the same card with a 750 Duron (KT7-RAID m/b) and started having the similar problems (hard lock, no virtual console, no ctrl-alt-delete, black screen, etc) but only within the last few days. Everything was working beautifully under XFree 4, even under high resolutions and medium graphic intensive programs, until I updated my packages a few days ago. I'm assuming that something broke with the mga drivers and hoping that it will be fixed soon. There has been a lot of activity with woody debs with regards to X stuff, so we'll just have to wait and see. However, that doesn't explain why it won't work under 3.3.6 for you, because I ran it for about a month with no problems on that.
Thinking maybe I should go get the latest driver from off their website. Charles Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Dear all. > > I've just bought a new computer and I've choosen a Matrox > Millennium G400 AGP card (as they're one of the most open > source friendly companies out there). > > Everything seems to be working fine with my hardware (I've got > an Asus A7V and a Duron 600 and they're working like a champ), > *except* that I can't seem to use my card in any graphic mode. > :-( > > I've tried to use both XFree86 3.3.6 and 4.0.1e (Branden's > packages from Debian) and after working for 2 or 3 *seconds*, > the whole machine hangs *hard*: no desktop switching, no > ctrl-alt-fx, no magic sysrq, no life, no nothing. :-( > > But some strange facts actually happen: > > 1 - when using XFree with a low resolution, 640x480 with 16 > colors (like when I'm running XF86Setup), everything works > ok; > > 2 - the *worst* part: windows works fine even with very, very > high resolutions and a considerable amount of time (I > don't have games here to test really intensive use of the > card). > > Incidentally, FreeBSD 4.1.1's XFree 3.3.6 also has the same > problem that Linux has (which seems to indicate that something > must be wrong with XFree or with my card -- memory? -- that > may be being triggered by XFree). > > The last fact, the Linux's Matrox framebuffer driver also > hangs the machine. :-( > > So, I'd like ask you if you have any suggestions or if anybody > has seen anything similar to this admitedly strange situation. > > Any hints or ways to check if the hardware is defective are > more than welcome, since I'm a bit desperate to return the > card if it indeed has a problem. > > > Thanks in advance for any help, Roger... > > P.S.: I'm a newbie when it comes to AGP cards as this is the first one > that I have ever used -- so, if there is anything that I could change > in the BIOS, please let me know. > > P.S.2: I'm including the output from XFree right after it came up, but > before it hanged (finished it with control-alt-backspace). > -- > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Rogerio Brito - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= >
