XFree 4 + Woody + DGA

[Jeremy Nickurak <gehn@email.com>]

Allright, I've been trying to take this up with matroxusers, matrox' technical support people, etc, and I still don't seem any closer to an answer.
Matrox G400 32mb DH card on an up-to-date woody installation, 2.4.0-test11 kernel. The problem described below has appeared for as long as I can remember. (Relatively early in Branden's phase-2 debs)

DGA display does not want to work. Whenever a program attempts to do display the video mode changes, but only a black screen is displayed. Everything else (sound, input etc) seems to go on, but there's no display whatsoever. Once the program stops using dga or terminates, display is restored. This has been observed in Wine, snes9x, and the "dga" test program.
No errors are reported, by the server, nor on the standard output of the program in question. I've attached my XF86Config-4 file, but I get the impression this isn't going to help much, and I'll tell you why.

I _can_ get DGA working if I switch to Matrox's now-over-2-month-old driver. The only problem with this solution is that it's designed for DRM1, so using it will kill off my currently working (and very well i should add) GL. I also haven't been able to extract from matrox any information on when they plan to release updated drivers.

I'm not sure of any other information to add, but if there's something you need, ask and you shall recieve. I also cannot confirm whether or not these symptons exhibit themselves in the current XFree4 CVS. (I'm on a 28.8 modem, and my access to the local T1 is sporadic). Any comment with respect to that, or anything else, would be greatly appreciated.

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# XF86Config-4 (XFree86 server configuration file) generated by Dexter, the
# Debian X Configuration tool.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the XF86Config manual page.
# (Type "man XF86Config" at the shell prompt.)

Section "Files"
	FontPath	"unix/:7100"			# local font server
	FontPath	"unix/:7101"			# local font server
	# if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these
#	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
#	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
#	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
#	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
#	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
#	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
#	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
#	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
EndSection

Section "Module"
	Load	"ddc"
	Load	"GLcore"
	Load	"dbe"
	Load	"dri"
	Load	"extmod"
	Load	"glx"
	Load	"pex5"
	Load	"record"
	Load	"xie"
	Load	"bitmap"
	Load	"freetype"
	Load	"speedo"
	Load	"type1"
	Load	"vbe"
	Load	"int10"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Generic Keyboard"
	Driver		"keyboard"
	Option		"CoreKeyboard"
	Option		"XkbRules"	"xfree86"
	Option		"XkbModel"	"pc104"
	Option		"XkbLayout"	"us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Generic Mouse"
	Driver		"mouse"
	Option		"CorePointer"
	Option		"Protocol"	"ImPS/2"
	Option		"Device"	"/dev/input/mice"
	Option		"ZAxisMapping"	"4 5"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier	"Generic Graphics Device"
	Driver "mga"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier	"Generic Monitor"
	HorizSync	30-85
	VertRefresh	50-130
	Option		"DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier	"Default Screen"
	Device		"Generic Graphics Device"
	Monitor		"Generic Monitor"
	DefaultDepth	16
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth		1
		Modes		"1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" 
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth		4
		Modes		"1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" 
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth		8
		Modes		"1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" 
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth		15
		Modes		"1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" 
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth		16
		Modes		"1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" 
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth		24
		Modes		"1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" 
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier	"Default Layout"
	Screen		"Default Screen"
	InputDevice	"Generic Keyboard"
	InputDevice	"Generic Mouse"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
	Mode	0666
EndSection

# end of XF86Config