Bug#546836: Bug confirmed: Matrox G550 unusable under squeeze
Hi there,
I updated my home desktop system to squeeze this weekend and was hit
by this same Matrox G550 bug. As soon as the xserver is started, the
screen turns completely black. I coudn't even switch back to console mode
(either MDA text console or VESA framebuffer console). The monitor
itself was not in sleep mode (it still received horizontal and vertical
sync). The only way to access the system was by the network from another
computer. Also, no errors reported in /var/log/Xorg.0.log but ps showed
that an XKeepsCrashing process was running.
Removing xorg.conf didn't change anything neither did removing the mga.ko
kernel DRM module.
As using the vesa driver was no viable option (no direct rendering, no
video overlay) I ended up downgrading all xorg packages the the old lenny
versions (I just kept the xserver-xorg control package from squeeze and
rebuild it with relaxed version dependancies so apt would not complain).
--
Etienne Vogt.
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