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I'm in over my head---bigtime. Trying to install a good gentoo setup, to |
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configure xorg where I have been forced to use the last working video card |
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in my parts box: a matrox mystique. The system is ok, with A7V600 MB, 512 MB |
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RAM, and an Athlon XP 2600+. Video is corrupted using Gentoo, no matter what |
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I've thought of to do. An Ubuntu partition on this box runs this video card |
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quite well. |
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I gather that there was a bug in the mga drivers some time ago, and it |
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appears that the xorg drivers have incorporated the patches I have seen |
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during my google searches. |
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I do wonder what to do about framebuffers, though. Tiring of the battle, |
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after many years of avoiding framebuffers, I finally turned on every |
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possible framebuffer related option in the kernel, recompiled the kernel, |
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installed, and ... the machine refused to boot. So I cobbled the system back |
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together and recompiled, and the system is back to the corruption issues |
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again. I do note that Ubuntu has some framebuffer modules loaded, and I |
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would like to learn just how this framebuffer might make my life any easier. |
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Can someone point to a description of the use of framebuffers? Why does |
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Gentoo include a no framebuffer kernel on the installation CDs? Is it |
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adviseable to use fb with the matrox driver on an x86 system? |
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Description: when scrolling the buffer, some lines are doubled, some are |
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lost, and using Firefox at least, when I type Ctrl-L, the frame displays |
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properly until it is scrolled again. I have found descriptions of similar |
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issues on the Inet, but nothing that has helped get my system to work |
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properly. Does this symptom ring a bell with anyone? |
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Thank you for any advice or pointers. |
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Gentoo is fantastic. |
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Alan Davis |
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