FC4: matrox MGA video driver corrupting display

[Jerone Young]

Sadly I would say that Matrox is falling (hard) in the supported area.
The problem should be fixed. But, I would save yourself some time and
go out a cheap Nvidia or ati card.

On 6/14/05, Dario Lesca <d.lesca at solinos.it> 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>
> 
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