This isn't really a newbie question, but I'm not sure where else to send it.
I have a Matrox G200 with a digital flat panel expansion card. This is a small daughterboard from Matrox that allows the G200 to driver either a standard CRT or a digital flat panel (dfp) display (or both, but only mirrored -- e.g., not as seperate outputs). While this configuration is reasonably well supported by the Linux console framebuffer code (via the 'dfp' option), it suffers from serious problems under XFree86. When XFree86 resets the G200 (at startup, or when switching to a text console and back, or in a variety of other situations), it disables the dfp output and revers back the the CRT. This is a minor annoyance if there is actually a CRT attached, and someone more irksome otherwise :). Petr Vandrovec, the maintainer of the Linux framebuffer code, was kind enough to provide me with a short bit of code that when run under X will re-enable the dfp output. I've got this running automatically every ten seconds right now, but that's hardly a graceful solution. I was hoping someone more familiar with the XFree86 source than I could recommend (or even implement) a way to support this configuration -- from my reading of Petr's code, the same option used to enable dfp output on a more recent Matrox card will also work on a G200. -- Lars _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
