RE: matrox G400 & fbcon problems

From: Terje Gjøsæter (tgjosate@grm.hia.no)
Date: Fri Jul 07 2000 - 08:04:52 EST


I see similar fbcon corruption in 2.4.0-test1-ac13 and 2.4.0-test2-pre4
with G400. No problems with my old G200. X is XFree86-4.0.1.

Terje Gjøsæter

On 07-Jul-2000 thunder7@xs4all.nl wrote:
> I've just switched from a G200 to G400, and I now see fbcon
> corruption
> about once a minute (lines from another console, lines from another
> console halfway between lines on the current console, ugly black and
> white patters that look very wrong, lines that were previously on
> other consoles, you name it I see it).
>
> kernel 2.2.17pre9
>
> CONFIG_FB=y
># CONFIG_FB_PM2 is not set
># CONFIG_FB_ATY is not set
># CONFIG_FB_VESA is not set
># CONFIG_FB_VGA16 is not set
> CONFIG_FB_MATROX=y
># CONFIG_FB_MATROX_MILLENIUM is not set
># CONFIG_FB_MATROX_MYSTIQUE is not set
> CONFIG_FB_MATROX_G100=y
># CONFIG_FB_MATROX_MULTIHEAD is not set
># CONFIG_FB_VIRTUAL is not set
># CONFIG_FBCON_ADVANCED is not set
> CONFIG_FBCON_CFB8=y
> CONFIG_FBCON_CFB16=y
> CONFIG_FBCON_CFB24=y
> CONFIG_FBCON_CFB32=y
># CONFIG_FBCON_FONTWIDTH8_ONLY is not set
> CONFIG_FBCON_FONTS=y
>
> I load my kernel as:
>
> c:\utility\linux\loadlin\loadlin c:\utility\linux\loadlin\2217pre9
> root=/dev/hda1 video=matrox:vesa:0x11E,fv:80
>
> lspci -vvx:
>
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G400 AGP
> (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
> Subsystem: Matrox Graphics, Inc. Millennium G400 32Mb SGRAM
> Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr-
> Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
> Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
> <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
> Latency: 16 min, 32 max, 64 set, cache line size 08
> Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16
> Region 0: Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable)
> Region 1: Memory at e4000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
> Region 2: Memory at e5000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
> Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
> Flags: PMEClk- AuxPwr- DSI+ D1- D2- PME-
> Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
> Capabilities: [f0] AGP version 2.0
> Status: RQ=31 SBA+ 64bit- FW- Rate=x1,x2
> Command: RQ=31 SBA+ AGP+ 64bit- FW- Rate=x1
> 00: 2b 10 25 05 07 00 90 02 03 00 00 03 08 40 00 00
> 10: 08 00 00 e8 00 00 00 e4 00 00 00 e5 00 00 00 00
> 20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 2b 10 f8 19
> 30: 00 00 00 00 dc 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0b 01 10 20
>
> fbset:
>
> mode "1600x1200-80"
> # D: 205.846 MHz, H: 99.347 kHz, V: 79.989 Hz
> geometry 1600 1200 1600 5241 16
> timings 4858 272 48 32 5 152 5
> accel true
> rgba 5/11,6/5,5/0,0/0
> endmode
>
> To illustrate, I had to press ^L in vim at least 10 times while
> composing this :-(
>
> Are there patches somewhere? Is this solved in the 2.4.0test-?
> kernels? I don't know
> if I should hope for that, as my isdn-compression is still broken in
> the 2.4.0 series....
>
> Jurriaan
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