Re: short display with 2.1.132-ac3, matroxfb and XF86_SVGA 3.3.3

T Taneli Vahakangas (vahakang@cs.Helsinki.FI)
Fri, 1 Jan 1999 01:21:14 +0200 (EET)


On Thu, 31 Dec 1998, Agus Budy Wuysang wrote:

> Alan Cox wrote:
> >
> > > seems to work. X is fine without matrox acceleration. Now, whose fault
> > > is it? Is the matrox G100/200 acceleration driver messing in an
> > > improper way or does XFree86 lack some initialisation.
> >
> > XFree is designed to work with text mode consoles. So either use the
> > XFree binary for the frame buffer console, or the text mode console and
> > the XFree for G200
> >
> > Alan
>
> My 4Mb Millenium (not II) FB Console works with both XFree SVGA
> and FBdev at 1152x900 :) no screen restoration problem whatsoever,
> excluding SVGA lib and SVGATextmode utility...

If you hear strange jitter when playing music with ALSA and are using the
combination of matroxfb and XFree86, just try to get rid of matroxfb (it
worked for me, I have a Mystique 220)

Anyone else have/had this problem? Or wants to know more -- my address is
below.

Taneli <vahakang@cs.helsinki.fi>

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