On Friday 21 February 2003 07:53 pm, you wrote:
> Neal,
>
> You don't mention which version of XFree86 v4.x you are running.
>
> That's a big missing piece. Maybe try one of the latest snapshots or
> at least 4.2.0.
OK. I am now using 4.2.1. And the card has *actually* initialized correctly
a time or three - the screen is fully displayed in the correct position and
the mouse is correctly aligned with the screen image.
However, it's a crap-shoot as to whether it'll come up properly. It's also
playing *new* tricks:
- sometimes it displays the green/white/black checkerboard (or some
grey or other sparse pattern) at the top
- sometimes it looks just fine, but the left edge of the display is
about 75% over to the right edge and the image is wrapped
- sometimes there is a vertical bar of junk at that 75% location
Also, the MGA driver (correctly?) recognizes that it can't run acceleration
on the MMII, but then usually hangs the system, whereas if I specify
NoAccel, it starts up, most often with the afore-mentioned problems.
I'd try Matrox's drivers, but they're only compiled for Intel (at least
I haven't seen any PPC versions). And I'm not sure I have the patience
to compile the kernel and all of X, then figure out where Matrox's
source is supposed to go to be compiled, then compile all of X yet again
all on this slow-ish 200MHz, 96MB Starmax...
If it matters at all, I'm running Debian's 2.2.20-pmac kernel. I've tried
their 2.4.19 kernel, but that one always boots up using the on-board
video, even though OF tells it to use the MMII.
Again, MacOS 9.x uses the MMII just fine.
Any suggestions? Perhaps I'm too persistent and should simple drop the
MMII into the circular file as 'not very well supported' and buy a new
card that *is* well supported? Dump the Starmax and get a real computer?
Thoughts?
Thanks,
Fest3er
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