what's the current state of the Matrox Productiva G100 support? Is there
any (possibly yet unofficial) patch available?
The G100 support in 2.1.131 doesn't work for me - neither as module nor
compiled in. According to the logs, it cannot determine the memory size
of my graphics card. However it messes up the screen, I cannot see any
useful string on it, instead a mix of chars and horribly flickering
(short) lines.
So my first question is, whether it is possible to leave the screen in a
usable state, when initializing fails (like here with this memory problem)?
I digged a bit in the kernel sources (matroxfb.c). The cause of the error
message seemed to be the determination of the real video memory size in the
getmemory function.
BTW, I have several problems with kernel parameters regarding matroxfb.
What, for example, is the correct syntax for specifying the amount of
memory? Is it 'video=matrox:mem:8M'?
Nevertheless, this didn't help here. One problem is, that the mem variable
is set up in matroxfb_setup, but this is called after matroxfb_init, and
therefore mem is still 0 when used during init. The second problem
(vid.len=0, see above) showed up, when I hardcoded mem to 8, before using
it in the init routine.
Well, there's a new XFree version, which has Matrox G100 support. Maybe
you can get the necessary information from it?
Thank you for any help.
Greetings,
Ulf
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