Bug 28468 - problem starting XFree server for matrox G200
Summary: problem starting XFree server for matrox G200
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: XFree86
Version: 7.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Mike A. Harris
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-02-20 16:39 UTC by Jaap de Wolff
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:31 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-02-20 16:39:56 UTC
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Description Jaap de Wolff 2001-02-20 16:39:53 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT)


After installing RH7.0 the XFree server tries to start at several 
resolutions, and dies again, until it is at the resolution 1024*768.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Do a fresh install of RH7, on a computer containing a Matrox G200 card 
with 8Mb.
2. Use all defaults.
3. As Monitor choose a generic 17" monitor that can handle 1200*1024
4. After installing reboot
When starting the X-Server the problem is there
	

Actual Results:  After some tries the X-server started at 1024*768

Expected Results:  The X-server shouls start immediate at 1200*1024

Adding the line 
VideoRam = 8192K to the XConfig file under the used server did solve the 
problem

Comment 1 Mike A. Harris 2001-02-20 18:53:35 UTC
It doesn't appear that XFree can detect Video RAM on Matrox cards. I don't
know if this is a bug or a hardware limitation, but anyone I know using
MGA cards, has to specify their video ram.  It seems to work better in our
latest rawhide release though.


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