On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 02:16:27PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 12:17:53AM +0330, Bahman M. wrote:
> > On 2007-10-15 Gary Kline wrote:
> > > On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 10:37:10PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> > > > Guys,
> > > >
> > > > Has anybody with any Dell run into this before? I just got
> > > > a new Matrox with 32M of video ram. Run with the "mga" driver, X
> > > > comes up extremely dark. If I change the driver to the "vesa" X
> > > > comes up with normal brightness but the resolution is terrible. At
> > > > most 640x480. tHis could be a hardware bug;I'm hoping it is
> > > > just not having selected the right driver.
> > > >
> > > > Anybody know what to try next?
> > > >
> > >
> > > Update, and no-joy: i've added Modes lines, tried different
> > > flags. Still, using the "mga" drivr gives a dark screen; only the
> > > "vesa" works. none of the xorg config toools work. The Matroc
> > > Millennium G450 is brand new, so doubt it's the card. The previous
> > > card had the same problem--way to dark--soI got this new card.
> > >
> > Some years ago, I had some similar problem with a Vistac monitor using
> > nVidia (on Linux). I found that it was the monitor not doing well in
> > some resolutions or colour depths. Changing the monitor solved the
> > problem.
> >
> > I'd suggest you try with another monitor and see if it works.
>
>
> It *could* be my CRT but it works on my 3 other KVM'd platforms
> flawlessly. Besides, the reason I bought the new G450 was
> because the exact same thing was happening with my other v-card.
>
>
> I tried "mga" and gathered the following data from the failure
> dump. [[X did work, but there was this huge, dark band a
> couple inches from the top (where the display was much lightr)
> and after the drk middle band, the display was also light toward
> the bottom.
>
>
> Here is what I found after I did a shutdown now:
>
>
>
> Requesting insufficient memory window!: start 0xfd800000 to 0x7efffff size
> 0x2000000
> (EE) Cannnot find empty range to map base to
> (II) Module "ramdac" already built-in
> (EE) [drm] drmOpen failed
> (EE) DRM(0) [dm] DRMScreenInit failed . Disabling DRI
>
>
> Does this ring a bell among anybody who is familiar with xorg?
> My thinking now is that something is wrong with the video on the
> m'board; that both this new G50 and the last card were all right.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> thanks,
I finally tried booting Windows and it says that I have
no "ATI driver" installed. What does this means?
I'm supposed to install some ATI driver. Say wha-??
gary
>
>
> >
> > HTH,
> >
> > Bahman
>
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