Re: Bullseye installation problem (with Matrox GPU)

2021-07-07 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I did a little more experimenting and learned my G550 doesn't need > nomodeset for the MGA X driver to work, but it only produces 1920x1080 > on my 2560x1440 screen, and xrandr still can't identify output names. You can trying playing with "modelines" where you reduce the screen refresh rate to

Re: Bullseye installation problem (with Matrox GPU)

2021-07-07 Thread Dan Ritter
Felix Miata wrote: > > https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item=Linux-5.10-Matrox-G200 > > > I did a little more experimenting and learned my G550 doesn't need nomodeset > for > the MGA X driver to work, but it

Re: Bullseye installation problem (with Matrox GPU)

2021-07-06 Thread Felix Miata
Andrew M.A. Cater composed on 2021-07-06 22:30 (UTC): > On Tue, Jul 06, 2021 at 04:26:52PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: >> I do have the MGA driver xserver-xorg-video-mga dysfunctional on (an AGP) >> G550 in >> i686 Bullseye by disabling KMS via nomodeset on, and adding iomem=relaxed >> to, the

Re: Bullseye installation problem (with Matrox GPU)

2021-07-06 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Jul 06, 2021 at 04:26:52PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Andrew M.A. Cater composed on 2021-07-06 12:56 (UTC): > > > Try installing firmware-misc-nonfree which will pull in > > firmware-amd-graphics > > I think. > > > I normally install firmware-linux-free firmware-linux-nonfree > >

Re: Bullseye installation problem (with Matrox GPU)

2021-07-06 Thread Felix Miata
Andrew M.A. Cater composed on 2021-07-06 12:56 (UTC): > Try installing firmware-misc-nonfree which will pull in firmware-amd-graphics > I think. > I normally install firmware-linux-free firmware-linux-nonfree > firmware-misc-nonfree - that covers all bases. > The AMD firmware is not in the