Re: Hang when using a Matrox G550 with DVI

Re: Hang when using a Matrox G550 with DVI

[Andrew Morton]

Shaun Jackman <sjackman@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> When I have a DVI display plugged into my Matrox G550 video card the
> Linux kernel 2.6.11 hangs while booting. This can be worked around by
> "disabling CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT and/or comment out call to store_edid
> in arch/i386/boot/video.S" [1], or by unplugging the DVI display
> before the kernel boots and plugging it back in before X starts. This
> is the same bug listed here [2], and it has been around since the
> 2.5.67-bk6 days.
> 
> Please cc me in your reply. Cheers,
> Shaun
> 
> [1] http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0408.2/0434.html
> [2] http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1458

Do the fbdev guys know about this?

Does 2.6.12-rc5 still have the bug?


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Re: Hang when using a Matrox G550 with DVI

[Shaun Jackman]

On 5/25/05, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
> Shaun Jackman <sjackman@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > When I have a DVI display plugged into my Matrox G550 video card the
> > Linux kernel 2.6.11 hangs while booting. This can be worked around by
> > "disabling CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT and/or comment out call to store_edid
> > in arch/i386/boot/video.S" [1], or by unplugging the DVI display
> > before the kernel boots and plugging it back in before X starts. This
> > is the same bug listed here [2], and it has been around since the
> > 2.5.67-bk6 days.
> >
> > Please cc me in your reply. Cheers,
> > Shaun
> >
> > [1] http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0408.2/0434.html
> > [2] http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1458
> 
> Do the fbdev guys know about this?
 
On 2005-Apr-29 you forwarded to
linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net the message quoted above that
I sent to lkml.

> Does 2.6.12-rc5 still have the bug?

I'm sorry, I don't know. If somebody believes they've fixed the bug,
I'd be happy to test for them.

Cheers,
Shaun


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