Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 29530
installer incorrectly uses obsolete device drivers for 2-head Matrox Millenium G450 video card
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:31:46 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.72 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14-5.0 i686) 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
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.
We (Red Hat) should really try to resolve this before next release.
"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.
we have G450 working as of today's internal tree, available as rawhide soon.
Our installer team-lead thinks we should really fix this before next release.
See also #26677 for my latest comments on G450 freezes. :-)