Bug#372079: DVI on G550, some bad news, some good news
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 06:40:15PM +0200, Brice Goglin wrote:
> From upstream IRC channel:
[ Getting DVI to work with the G550 ]
> => There's a workaround, enable matroxfb. If your dfp goes black when
> you start X, shut it off and on manually
Interesting. Matroxfb *is* enabled in my kernel. But no chance to use
DVI without the binary Hallib. It's still a 2.4.27 kernel, though. And
I did experience that blank screen from time to time (not predictable),
and powering the panel off did help indeed, but it was very annoying.
Finally I was able to workaround that by configuring a second fake
screen, IIRC.
> me: Is there a chance it gets fixed one day?
> => I've got DVI support in the randr-1.2 branch, but it's not in a
> releasable state yet
> me: No need to report then, just wait
> => yes
Great to hear someone's working on it! So there's hope. :-)
> So, you might want to try enabling matroxfb in your kernel and console.
I'll probably try Linux 2.6.18 with matroxfb after upgrading to Etch.
> FYI, XRandR 1.2 is new shiny feature that driver developers are
> implementing these days, it makes management of multiple heads much
> easier and better. So, there might be good news in the future.
And thanks for that explanation! I had heard about it, but nothing
stuck besides the buzzword.
Brice, I'm really impressed by your bug hunting!
Nikolaus
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