On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 21:52:57 +0200, Ritchard Nash wrote:
> 1)If i set in the bios the matrox card as the primary video vard ( init
> AGP first )
> then i can use both cards and all go fine.If i set the s3 as the primary
> card ( init PCI first )
> then when i run Xfree with the same
> configuration (still mga driver and vesa driver ) the matrox screen (!!)
> is garbage.
> In each case the s3 ( vesa driver ) is fine while the matrox works only
> if is set as
> first display. I'd like to know if this is a bug ( a known one or
> unknown ) and if there is something
> that i can do. I tried to disable DRI , AGP 2x and the various extension
> but the result
> is always the same.
Yes, it is a known problem at least with G450 -- if those cards
are non-primary (I've checked both G450AGP and G450PCI), so that they
aren't initialized by BIOS, XFree86 is unable to properly program the
chip. Matrox's HAL module *is* able to do the work, but has its own
glitches.
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Dmitry Yu. Bolkhovityanov
The Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics
Novosibirsk, Russia
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