my configuration that usually works: *** lspci *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** $ lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 735 Host (rev 01) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge (AGP) 00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS85C503/5513 (LPC Bridge) 00:02.1 SMBus: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS961/2 SMBus Controller 00:02.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 07) 00:02.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 07) 00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev d0) 00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Sound Controller (rev a0) 00:09.0 VGA compatible controller: 3Dfx Interactive, Inc. Voodoo Banshee (rev 03) 00:0b.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA 2064W [Millennium] (rev 01) 00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA 2064W [Millennium] (rev 01) 00:0f.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905 100BaseTX [Boomerang] 00:11.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 61) 00:11.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 61) 00:11.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 63) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. G400/G450 (rev 82) (four video card: two Mga-Me millenium PCI, one Vodoo PCI, and a G400 AGP) *** kernel prompt *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** kernel boot line: kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.16-gentoo-r8-Gentoo-moon_06 root=/dev/hda7 acpi=force splash lapic quiet video=matroxfb:1280x1024-16@60,accel,mtrr,dev:0 resume=/dev/hda8 *** xorg.conf *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** lets remove comments and modlines. Some uncommented parts are still unused, as for FrreStar monitor, or MGA2 sections. [SNIP] comment was said to be too long, I ll try attachement in some further comment. *** problem *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** actually, I get FB console on Matrox Me in lowest PCI Slot. That works fine from technical point of view, but is not what I want. I want console to be on screen from AGP card. And no I wont switch cables due to frequency problems. BIOS initialises first AGP port, then, matroxfb driver from Linux docs says it uses the first found device, the first one shown in 'lspci', that is: 00:0b.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics I dont know why, but seems FB cant be used on 3Dfx. Dont ask me why. Linux docs says that in order to use console FB on alternate screen, one should use option dev:<n> 1 then puts console on second Matrox-Me, and 2 on APG card, accroding to lspci list. This works ok up to here: I really do get console where expected. Problem is when loading X. When console is not on screen binded to card/device 0, then X freeses. It seems I dont have kernel panic since USB driver still seem to works (unplug/replug mouse let light optical sensor, what usually does not happen when KP; panic=30 does not either reboot system after 1 minute). But ACPI/power button has no effect to halt system (unless long pression on button of course), and keyboard numlock cant switch light. I could try ping/ssh, but that may take a few days to set other systems for that. Remind me if you want me to try this. If I boot the system with dev:1 or dev:2 and configure X to use only the AGP card, then it works fine (aka, only one screen, but no freeze). The freeze takes some time: 8 to 9 seconds. It take first 2s to initialise AGP card, then 2 more for 3Dfx, then second MAtrox-Me comes on (all screen keep black, but monitor come out of power save, and get 'on'), then garbage come on 3Dfx, and second Me screen turns off again. After 9s, G400 and 3Dfx screens are 'on', G400 is black, and 3Dfx get white lines, when both Me are off. Once I launched X, there is no way to use CTRL+ALT+BackSpace or ctrm+alt+sup. Under Gentoo I use proprietary Matrox driver, but exactly the same problem happens with Debian that have free Mga driver, and different kernel. I also noticed that with kernels 2.6.16-gentoo-r1 and previous ones, the default frame buffer device may not be the same. Not sure what to test with old kernels. *** good luck *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
Section "Files" FontPath "unix/:7100" # local font server # if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi" EndSection Section "Module" Load "bitmap" Load "dbe" Load "ddc" Load "extmod" Load "freetype" Load "glx" Load "int10" Load "record" Load "type1" Load "v4l" Load "vbe" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Keyboard" Driver "kbd" Option "CoreKeyboard" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "fr" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Configured Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "CorePointer" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Matrox me ul" Driver "mga" BusID "PCI:0:11:0" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Matrox me ur" Driver "mga" BusID "PCI:0:13:0" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "dfx urr" Driver "tdfx" BusID "PCI:0:9:0" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Matrox G400" Driver "mga" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" Screen 0 EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Matrox G400 2" Driver "mga" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" Screen 1 Option "Tv" "no" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Green_Star-mon" Option "DPMS" HorizSync 30-70 VertRefresh 50-160 DisplaySize 350 265 Gamma 1.4 EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Green_Star-mga_2-scr" Device "Matrox G400 2" Monitor "Green_Star-mon" DefaultDepth 16 SubSection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1152x864" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1152x864" EndSubSection EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "DELL-mon" Option "DPMS" HorizSync 30-100 VertRefresh 50-160 DisplaySize 350 265 Gamma 1.2 EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Sun GDM-20E20 bl" VendorName "Sun" ModelName "GDM-20E20" Gamma 1.0 Option "DPMS" HorizSync 30-70 VertRefresh 50-120 EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Sun GDM-20E20 br" VendorName "Sun" ModelName "GDM-20E20" Gamma 1.0 Option "DPMS" DisplaySize 395 290 HorizSync 30-70 VertRefresh 50-120 EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Sun GDM-1962B" VendorName "Sun" ModelName "GDM-1962B" Gamma 1.0 Option "DPMS" DisplaySize 395 290 HorizSync 30-70 VertRefresh 50-120 EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "DELL_7340" VendorName "DEL" ModelName "DEL7340" Option "DPMS" HorizSync 30 - 70 # DDC-probed VertRefresh 50 - 160 # DDC-probed EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Sun_bl" Device "dfx urr" Monitor "Sun GDM-20E20 br" DefaultDepth 16 SubSection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1280x1024" EndSubSection EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Sun_br" Device "Matrox G400" Monitor "Sun GDM-20E20 br" DefaultDepth 16 SubSection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1280x1024" EndSubSection EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Sun_ul" Device "Matrox me ul" Monitor "Sun GDM-20E20 br" DefaultDepth 16 SubSection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1280x1024" EndSubSection EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Sun_ur" Device "Matrox me ur" Monitor "Sun GDM-20E20 br" DefaultDepth 16 SubSection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1280x1024" EndSubSection EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Sun_urr" Device "dfx urr" Monitor "Sun GDM-20E20 br" DefaultDepth 16 SubSection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1280x1024" EndSubSection EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "dell-mga-scr" Device "Matrox G400" Monitor "DELL-mon" DefaultDepth 16 SubSection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1152x864" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1152x864" EndSubSection EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Default Layout" Screen 0 "Sun_br" 0 0 #RightOf Screen 1 "Sun_bl" LeftOf "Sun_br" Screen 2 "Sun_ur" Above "Sun_br" Screen 3 "Sun_ul" Above "Sun_bl" InputDevice "Generic Keyboard" InputDevice "Configured Mouse" Option "BlankTime" "60" Option "StandbyTime" "61" Option "SuspendTime" "62" Option "OffTime" "63" Option "Xinerama" "on" EndSection Section "DRI" Mode 0666 EndSection
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre19 Portage 2.1_rc1-r3 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.16-gentoo-r8-Gentoo-moon_06 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16-gentoo-r8-Gentoo-moon_06 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 4 Processor distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.3-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r5 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks keeptemp keepwork metadata-transfer noclean sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="en_GB.ISO-8859-15" LC_ALL="en_GB.ISO-8859-15" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/tmp" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/mnt/big" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X a52 aac aalib acpi aim alsa amr amuled ao apache2 apic apm arts audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bidi binfilter bitmap-fonts bl bonjour bootsplash cdda cdparanoia cdr cjk cli cmov cpudetection crypt cups curl cx8 dbus de dga directfb dmi doc dri dts dv dvb dvd dvdread dynamic eds emboss encode esd ethereal examples fbcon ffmpeg flac flash foomaticdb fortran fping fpu freetype fxsr gdbm ggi gif gnome gnutls gpm gs gstreamer gtk gtk2 httpd i8x0 icq idea idn ieee1394 imagemagick imlib ipv6 irc isdnlog jabber jack java javascript jpeg kde lcms libcaca libg++ libwww lirc listentcp live lj logrotate lzo mad matrox mca mce mikmod mmx mmxext mono motif mozcalendar mp3 mpeg mplayer msn msr mtrr mtyhtv ncurses network nls no-htdocs nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pae pam pat pcre pdflib perl pge png pppd pse pse36 python qt quicktime rar readline real reflection rss rtc rtsp samba screen sdl sensord sep server session silc skey skins sndfile speex spell spl sse ssl startup-notification stream subtitles svg svga swat symlink tcpd tga theora threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts tsc type1-fonts unicode urandom usb v4l v4l2 vcd vim vlm vme vorbis win32codecs wmf wxwindows x264 xanim xinerama xml2 xmms xorg xosd xscreensaver xv xvid xvmc yahoo zeroconf zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_wacom kernel_linux userland_GNU video_cards_apm video_cards_chips video_cards_cirrus video_cards_fbdev video_cards_-i810 video_cards_i128 video_cards_mga video_cards_nv video_cards_-nvidia video_cards_s3 video_cards_s3virge video_cards_sis video_cards_tga video_cards_trident video_cards_v4l video_cards_vesa video_cards_vga video_cards_-via" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Known upstream issue, you need to complain there so that it gets some attention finally.
problem is that I dont know which upstream to go ... since it happens on my Debian where I do not use proprietary Matrox driver, I still have choice between Linux-FrameBuffer team, userspace FB team, or Xorg ... or maybe some else ? as end user, I expect an interraction, but I have no clue whose fault it is. Even if it seems to be Xorg faults, bug *may be* that Xorg does a legitimate call to Linux-kernel so that FB driver has a lock ... I cant be 100% which app is faulty ... or maybe several apps have bugs example: as for esd stops playing mplayer streams when xmms is paused ? that is a *double bug* !
Jakub, you seem like you would know the answer to #4 :P
Go ahead and file a bug at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=xorg using the open-source mga driver -- post the URL here so we can track it. Also ensure you can reproduce this with the latest X release, 7.1. Thanks!
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8237
