Re: Matroxfb still broken in -test6

[Erik Hensema <erik@hensema.net>]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 12:08:42PM +0200, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
> On 30 Sep 03 at 9:24, Erik Hensema wrote:
> > The simptoms are:
> > 
> > - large white bar to the right of the pengiun logo on booting
> > - (mostly) yellow distortion in the background: parts of the screen that
> >   should be black, are distorted with a semi-regular pattern. Each line of
> >   scrolling adds around 5 lines worth of distorion to the bottom of the
> >   screen. The distorion works its way up until the entire screen is filled
> >   with it.
> >   Switching to and from another vc clears it.
> 
> Are you sure that you are not running XFree when this yellow distortion
> occurs? It looks to me like that you are using XFree with DRI in 32bpp,
> while your console uses 8bpp. Do not do that! DRI permanently smashes
> accelerator state with its own setting, and this makes any other
> accelerated work on the system unusable. So either disable matroxfb's
> acceleration, or explain to your mga_dri that "screen invisble" should
> mean "you do not own hardware, dude!".

I'm sure I do run X. Thanks for the explanation.

-- 
Erik Hensema (erik@hensema.net)