FC4: matrox MGA video driver corrupting display

John Austin ja at jaa.org.uk
Tue Jun 14 15:56:00 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 17:32 +0200, Dario Lesca wrote:
> Hi, the FC4 Setup in graphical mode on this machine:
> 
> [root at ghim ~]# cat /proc/cpuinfo | egrep '(vendor_id|model|cpu MHz)'
> vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
> model           : 2
> model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz
> cpu MHz         : 2000.572
> [root at ghim ~]# lspci
> 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8753 [P4X266 AGP] (rev 01)
> 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8633 [Apollo Pro266 AGP]
> 00:09.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone]
> (rev 24)
> 00:0b.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02)
> 00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233A ISA Bridge
> 00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc.
> VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
> 00:11.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
> Controller (rev 23)
> 00:11.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
> Controller (rev 23)
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G550 AGP
> (rev 01)
> [root at ghim ~]#
> 
> Does Not work.
> 
> I must reboot the system 4 or 5 times without turning off the PC just to
> see a clear graphic interface.
> The "linux nofb" option passed on boot sequence does not solve the
> problem. 
> 
> As soon as the setup process is finished I reboot the system and there's
> a bad X graphic interface, so the o.s. is unusable.
> 
> After 4 or 6 reboots the graphic interface is loaded correctly and the
> system work great.
> 
> I have found on bugzilla for FC4test[23] this Bug:
>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=153729
>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=157556
> 
> Is this a known error for FC4 ?
> there is a bypass or a solution?
> 
> Many thanks.
> 
> -- 
> Dario Lesca <d.lesca at solinos.it>
> 

Hi
Just installed FC4 with Matrox G550
Graphics corrupt (as expected) both during install and when rebooted.

The xorg problem can be solved by
down loading
xorg-x11-6.8.2-1.FC3.13.i386.rpm's 
I replaced all 18 !!
Maybe there is a better way but !!!

Probably in run level 3 after a clean reboot
Something like
s1=`rpm -qa|grep -i xorg-x11`
Double check you really want to do this !!!!
echo $s1
rpm --nodeps -e $s1

Then assuming the 18 older versions are available
rpm --nodeps -i xorg-x11*.rpm

The graphics then works.
Whether other problems have been introduced only time
will tell!!

John





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