Bug#347186: linux-image-2.6.14-2-alpha-generic: garbled Matrox framebuffer

[Norbert Tretkowski <norbert@tretkowski.de>]

* Sven Luther wrote:
> matroxfb is problematic, since the matroxfb maintainer didn't agree
> on the 2.4->2.6 fbdev API change, and thus things broke all over,
> and has a huge patch that reverses the new fbdev stuff. At least
> this was the case a year or two back at least.

Last time I tried matroxfb on alpha (IIRC it was with 2.5.68), this
patch helped to get it working correctly:

ftp://platan.vc.cvut.cz/pub/linux/matrox-latest/

I thought that patch was integrated upstream already, but there's a
patch against 2.6.15-rc4, so I don't think it was integrated already.

Norbert