Hi i have a Matrox Millennium II which is not recognized by Jackelope...(904a6) This (very old (~'95) with Tyan Trinity MB and Matrox Millennium II video) was recognized just fine by and installed with WinXP.
The symptoms i am having is it aliases a window or control panel all over. It also does not use the allowable displays (such as are used fine in XP eg 1280x1...@32b) The highest resolution allowed (13xxx768) goes off screen... i found this entry and tried to follow it. [url]https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/yelp/+question/5121[/url] Every time i rebooted the only successful option was to do automatic reconfiguration which wiped xorg.conf out. i tried resetting xorg.conf, with the latest attempt below. Any other suggestions? Even VESA would be better... -- Section "Device" Identifier "Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G400" Driver ¨mga¨ BusID ¨PCI:1:0:0¨ Option ¨OldDmaInit¨ ¨True¨ EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Samsung 990DF" ModelName "990DF" Option ¨DPMS¨ HorizSync 28-80 VertRefresh 48-75 EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Samsung 990DF" Monitor "Configured Monitor" Device "Configured Video Device" EndSection -- NB: i tried the non-install features for 710 and 810. The result is THE SAME for 810 ... But WORKS ie is non-aliasing) for 710 at 1024x...@85hz (has no option for the higher rez's as recognized by XP3, so 710 still does not recognize all the capabilities of this card) -- lspci reports: 00:08.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA 2164W [Millennium II] How does one coerce this, correct determination, to a non-aliased, correct screen resolution, usage? -- Looking at Xorg.0.log: This may be why it fails [ 1.925900] (WW) MGA(0): Unable to probe memory amount due to hardware bug. Assuming 4096 KB... (the device actually has 32MB of memory) [ 2.559260] (WW) MGA(0): Shrinking virtual size estimate from 2048x1536 to 1360x768 [ 2.559551] (--) MGA(0): Has SDRAM [ 2.559679] (--) MGA(0): Virtual size is 1360x768 (pitch 1376) [ 2.559759] (**) MGA(0): *Default mode "1360x768": 84.8 MHz, 47.7 kHz, 59.8 Hz... 1360x768 IS the highest but is way oout of whack wrt the monitors aspect capabilities. The 4MB may be causing the aliasing... [ 2.986848] (II) MGA(0): Using MGA 2164W ILOAD video [ 2.986915] (II) MGA(0): This is an experimental driver and may not work on your machine.... Perhaps But what does and how do i install it? -- i did get an ISA Stealth card at the Goodwill, but it turned out to be a dud. The MB can take either ISA or PCI boards. So far though i am stuck with trying to make the PCI MMatrox solution work - besides it is a good card and i am used to it;-) Given at least 710 does not break too badly ... if i install that, what do i need to AVOID when i upgrade in place, to keep video working? i wish a newer version would work, hate to be ALWAYS watching out. It would be good too if some version of Ubuntu actually recognized that card, or there was a way to coerce the system... -- mga corrupts console on exit https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/17771 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
