Bug#372079: DVI on G550, some bad news, some good news

["t takahashi" <gambarimasu@gmail.com>]

On 5/8/07, Nikolaus Schulz <microschulz@web.de> wrote:
> I'll probably try Linux 2.6.18 with matroxfb after upgrading to Etch.

can you let us on this bug (i seem to be on its forward list, which is
good and i hope will continue to be the case after any mergings) know
the results?

i can try the same by setting the right things and installing etch on
a new disk, if i know what to set and can do so without debug
iterations.  unfortunately, i am too ignorant about x stuff.  i don't
even know:

which kernel option is relevant,
what enabling in the console means,
whether anything would be required in the x conf file,
what a framebuffer is exactly,
and even what "dfp" means.  (i guess "digital flat panel".)

icih, the last time i tried fixing this was a while back, but it was
probably a 2.6 kernel.  here is my current kernel.

(1) 08-Tue-14-16-11 ~# uname -a;gunzip -c /proc/config.gz | grep -i matrox
Linux debian 2.6.18myver #1 SMP Sun Mar 11 14:33:06 MST 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
CONFIG_FB_MATROX=m
# CONFIG_FB_MATROX_MILLENIUM is not set
# CONFIG_FB_MATROX_MYSTIQUE is not set
CONFIG_FB_MATROX_G=y
# CONFIG_FB_MATROX_MULTIHEAD is not set

p.s. if "millenium" is the right option, is it a typo for "millennium"
that needs to be fixed, or is that just the way it is, kind of like
http "referer"?

thanks.

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