Bug 29530

Summary:	installer incorrectly uses obsolete device drivers for 2-head Matrox Millenium G450 video card
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Erich Schwarz <emsch>
Component:	Xconfigurator	Assignee:	Preston Brown <pbrown>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Version:	7.1	CC:	mharris, saint
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Description Erich Schwarz 2001-02-26 09:53:48 UTC

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   On installing wolverine, the installer confidently auto-detects a 2-head
Matrox G450 video card as "Matrox G400".  Then when I later try to set up X
windowing, the entire system hangs completely (cannot be cleanly rebooted
with three-finger salute).  I have observed this problem on two machines
(same hardware, installer CD).  I have checked the matrox.com Web site and
found that they are offering up-to-date device drivers for their 2-headed
Matrox G450 card, at:
http://www.matrox.com/mga/support/drivers/latest/home.cfm


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. get machine with Matrox Millenium 2-head G450 video card
2.do text expert install with wolverine CDs
3.watch install autodetect "G400", then watch X configuration totally hang
later
	

Actual Results:  Total system hang.

Expected Results:  If correct device drivers had been picked, presumably a
smooth Xwindowing.

    It should be easy (technically -- I know nothing about licensing/legal
issues) to get up-to-date device drivers from:

http://www.matrox.com/mga/support/drivers/latest/home.cfm

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2001-02-26 13:08:41 UTC

The Matrox dual-head drivers include a large binary-only component,
we won't ship them. As for identifying it as a G400, it's because
they share the same PCI id.

Comment 2 Glen Foster 2001-02-26 23:56:42 UTC

We (Red Hat) should really try to resolve this before next release.

Comment 3 Erich Schwarz 2001-02-27 07:14:24 UTC

"The Matrox dual-head drivers include a large binary-only component, we won't
ship them."

OK, I understand not wanting binary-only.  But:

Could Red Hat just please consider including the following source code (not
"binary only")?

       
ftp://ftp.matrox.com/pub/mga/archive/linux/2001/beta_1_01_05/mga-1_01_05beta.tgz

Some documentation for this source code is at:

        ftp://ftp.matrox.com/pub/mga/archive/linux/2001/beta_1_01_05/readme.txt

Thank you.

Comment 4 Preston Brown 2001-02-27 23:38:01 UTC

we have G450 working as of today's internal tree, available as rawhide soon.

Comment 5 Glen Foster 2001-03-02 18:04:58 UTC

Our installer team-lead thinks we should really fix this before next release.

Comment 6 David Sainty 2001-03-18 22:23:56 UTC

See also #26677 for my latest comments on G450 freezes. :-)