Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 28468
problem starting XFree server for matrox G200
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:31:36 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: 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
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.