P.S. I'm neither a dev nor all that familiar with this stuff either.
I'm just a user. And I've been on the SuSE forums talking with those people in trying to figure out this issue that I am seeing where Xorg was consuming ~100 GiB of RAM which, pretty much every technical person I've talked to so far, doesn't think that should be happening at all. And LOTS of people who I am talked to already are stumped as to why. So, here I am. And I/we are trying a bunch of different things to see if anything will permanently alleviate this issue. (Surprised that it is still happening at all, but *shrug*. Oh well.) The Matrox framebuffer is popular on servers (console) because it's presumably rather inexpensive and "lightweight". (akin to the old ATI 8 MB Radeon framebuffers/Aspeed AST framebuffers) They provide very basic video output capabilities for the console. Thanks. On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 1:05 AM, Felix Miata <mrma...@earthlink.net> wrote: > Ewen Chan composed on 2017-12-07 00:32 (UTC-0500): > > > 08:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Electronics Systems Ltd. MGA > > G200eW WPCM450 (rev 0a) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) > Seeing this thread get so long makes me curious. I'm neither dev nor all > that > familiar with the intricacies of Xorg or drivers, but I have had troubling > experience with openSUSE and the mga driver, which you can see by looking > at: > https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1004453 > > I wonder if it would be worth giving > > iomem=relaxed > > on cmdline a try? > > Reading the bug might provide other clues what to try. > > IIRC, most distros have abandoned providing any mga driver. Also I wonder > if the > G200eW driver might have support in the server-integrated modesetting > driver? > -- > "Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom. Whatever else you > get, get wisdom." Proverbs 4:7 (New Living Translation) > > Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! > > Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ >
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