I am CCing Tilman (the upstream developer). The whole report is available at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=464015
Nikolaus Schulz wrote: > testing the mga driver from experimental I find that indeed DVI now > works with my G550 card (cooool, finally!!), Good to know. > but unfortunately the > screen doesn't resume into a sane state after suspending to ram (s2ram). > This is not the case with the driver in unstable (plus the proprietary > HAL module). Suspend to disk works like a charm. > > After s2ram the machine seems to be entirely alive, but the screen is > all white. I can access the console, and at least once even my xterm > was still working, but I'm blind. > Did you ever get s2ram to work on this box ? (when not using DVI?) What happens with driver 1.4.8 from unstable? > Restarting X with ctrl-alt-backspace doesn't help: the screen flashes a > couple of times (trying to initialize?) then enters text mode, still > flashing and unusable. I am attaching two X logfiles, one captured > right after resuming, and another one after restarting X (as described). > Obviously X sees only 2MB video RAM when restarted, and finally > crashes... > Ok there's a bug in the way the driver retrieves the VideoRAM after suspend. The crash comes from the pixman lib and is similar to upstream bug #12398 which is supposed to be fixed. What is your server doing after startup? Loading a real window manager with shiny effects? Or just loading a simple xdm? > I've tried to get the driver from upstream's git repo working but > failed, I ended up with a blank screen. Please say if you think I > should still report this upstream. > Let's see what Tilman as to say first :) Brice -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
