F9 and Matrox MGA 400 framebufffer

Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wolfgang.rupprecht+gnus200805 at gmail.com
Wed May 14 23:41:32 UTC 2008


It looks like the version of Xorg in Fedora-9/i386 doesn't like my
ancient Matrox MGA 400-series framebuffer.  X runs, but the screen is
fairly garbled.  Strangely the text consoles (eg. the console on
alt-ctl-Fn) also have problems with every other letter
missing. Strange.  Fedora-8/i386 worked beautifully.  Anyone else
seeing this?  Am I the only one that still has an old Matrox card? ;-)

(That old machine was doing fine sitting next to the stereo serving
mp3's from rhythmbox.  Logging in over the net to play mp3's is going
to be a bit of a pain.)

-wolfgang
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