Trying to use the DRI stuff is causing X to lockup. In fact, the
whole system is almost locked up---the keyboard and mouse are
impotent, and the monitor doesn't show anything. Fortunately, I can
do a remote login, but the only way to make the system useable is to
do a reboot (killing all X processes doesn't help).
Anyway, I was hoping that maybe someone on this list has had a similar
problem. My setup is as follows:
- Abit KT7 (via kt133) mobo
- Matrox Millenium g450 32 MB RAM agp video card
- Promise ATA/100 pci ide controller (one ide drive attached)
- Tekram dc390u2w SCSI controller (attached are two scsi disks,
one cd burner, one dvd rom)
- SB Live!
- Intel etherexpress 100 pci ethernet card
I'm running Debian potato, but I'm using the XFree86 4.1.0 binaries at
people.debian.org/~cpbotha/.
After installing those unofficial debs, I downloaded and installed the
Matrox g400 series drivers from matrox's website (the filename is
"mgadrivers-2.0.tar.gz"). This installed the following files:
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/mga_drv.o (replacing the default)
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/mga_drv_hal.o
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/mga_dri.so
I'm not sure if that last one is in the right location.
I'm using a custom-compiled 2.4.18 kernel with agpgart and mga drivers
compiled as modules. If I start X without loading those modules, I
get this line in /var/log/XFree86.0.log:
(==) MGA(0): Direct rendering disabled
...but X appears to be stable (i.e. hasn't locked up on me).
If I modprobe those two modules before starting X, everthing appears
okay... until something comes along and locks up X. Once this "just
happened"---I was in the middle of doing some work and X locked up.
The other time was today when I got home from work, the computer was
locked up (so I don't know what caused it. My guess is one of the 3d
modules in my self-compiled xscreensaver).
Some of the pertinant lines from my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 are as
follows:
# ...
Load "glx"
Load "dri"
# ...
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection
# ...
Section "Device"
Identifier "matrox"
Driver "mga"
Option "AGPMode" "2"
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
# ...
Well, if anyone has been down this road before, I'd be happy to hear
your experiences!
Thanks
Matt
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