Xorg not working with Matrox G550?? MGAGetBOARDHANDLESize

[Bill Moseley <moseley@hank.org>]

Reposted from d-u.

I did a Sid upgrade today.

  undefined symbol: MGAGetBOARDHANDLESize. 

I could not get the xserver to start and finally had to downgrade
to 6.8.2 and install the mga driver from the Matrox site.

Exiting the xserver seems to leave the video card in the wrong state,
as I just have a few big blocks on the screen and no text mode.

There's related bug report about the  MGAGetBOARDHANDLESize error.


  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=345497

    "This user was using the proprietary mga_hal driver, which we can't
    support.  Closing this bug, which he's fixed by removing this
    module."

I removed mga_hal.so and then startx gets the monitor to switch
modes and then hangs (so no text mode anymore).

The log shows:

    (EE) MGA: Failed to load module "mga_hal" (module does not exist, 0)
    (==) MGA(0): Matrox HAL module not loaded - using builtin mode setup instead

(ok, that's expected)

Then this:

    drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
    drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
    drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
    drmOpenDevice: Open failed
    drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
    drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
    drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
    drmOpenDevice: Open failed
    drmOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID pci:0000:01:00.0
    drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
    drmOpenDevice: open result is 8, (OK)
    drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns 8
    drmOpenByBusid: drmGetBusid reports+
    drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card1
    drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
    drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
    drmOpenDevice: Open failed
    drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -1023
    drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card2
    drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
    drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
    drmOpenDevice: Open failed
    drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -1023
    drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card3
    drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
    drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
    drmOpenDevice: Open failed

    [repeats until cart19 and then just stops]


-- 
Bill Moseley
moseley@hank.org