Re: Matrox G550 - MGA X server fails

2017-03-23 Thread Felix Miata
Oliver Elphick composed on 2017-03-22 10:25 (UTC): I am unable to start X using a Matrox Millennium G550 PCIe card. Does iomem=relaxed on kernel cmdline help? -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team

Re: Matrox G550 - MGA X server fails

2017-03-23 Thread Felix Miata
Oliver Elphick composed on 2017-03-23 09:42 (UTC): It does seem to be related to video drivers more generally. Outside X the console driver from grub fails to reduce the size of text. Since I am using grub version 2, it will take a lot of research to find out what the scripts are doing.

Re: Matrox G550 - MGA X server fails

2017-03-23 Thread Oliver Elphick
It does seem to be related to video drivers more generally. Outside X the console driver from grub fails to reduce the size of text. Since I am using grub version 2, it will take a lot of research to find out what the scripts are doing. There is no simple VGA= parameter to change. I have set the

Re: Matrox G550 - MGA X server fails

2017-03-22 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2017-03-22 10:25 +, Oliver Elphick wrote: > I am unable to start X using a Matrox Millennium G550 PCIe card. > > This is what I think is the relevant part of the log for the session: > > #011compiled for 1.19.2, module version = 0.1.0 > #011ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 23.0 >

Re: Matrox G550 - MGA X server fails

2017-03-22 Thread Felix Miata
Oliver Elphick composed on 2017-03-22 10:25 (UTC): I am unable to start X using a Matrox Millennium G550 PCIe card. Try stripping whatever in your Grub config is video-related, or reconfiguring it to native plain text 80x25 mode: http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1004453 I

Matrox G550 - MGA X server fails

2017-03-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
I am unable to start X using a Matrox Millennium G550 PCIe card. This is what I think is the relevant part of the log for the session: #011compiled for 1.19.2, module version = 0.1.0 #011ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 23.0 (--) MGA(0): Chipset: "mgag550" xf86TokenToOptinfo: table is NULL