Re: Total freeze switching X->fb (matrox)

Peter Daum
2004-04-19T17:05:15Z

Tomasz Torcz wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 06:37:58PM +0200, legion wrote:
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>> The problem is: framebuffer (matroxfb) works fine, X (xfree 4.3 or Xorg
>> 6.7) works fine, but sometimes when i hit "ctrl alt F1" for switching
>> on the console, the system freeze.
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>> video card: Matrox G400 DH on nvidia nforce2 motherboard
>> kernel: vanilla 2.6.3+ (nforce2 agp/matrox drm/matroxfb support)
>> X server: Xfree 4.3.0 or Xorg r6.7 using "mga" driver
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> It also happens with Matrox G550 on VIA board.
> All 2.6.x kernels. XFree86 4.3 and 4.4.

Same thing here with Asus P4-PE board.
No matroxfb here, so this doesn't seem to be the problem.
I guess it's more an issue with agpart/drm.