[MPlayer-matrox] Weird problem with a G400 - shows only junk through mga_vid

[Mikko Nahkola]

On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 11:45:50PM +0200, Michael Späth wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> When I did see Mikko having the same problems and also having Gentoo, I
> tried a vanilla 2.6.12.5 kernel this evening with a very conservative
> .config file (remade from scratch, only with network card and sound card
> in it).
> 
> And... it didn't work... Same memory addresses, same garbage
> 
> I guess it must be somehow the chipset (which I will test next with
> another board from VIA). I have an Irongate chipset, lspci follows:
> 
> 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-751
> [Irongate] System Controller (rev 25)
> 0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-751 [Irongate]
> AGP Bridge (rev 01)
> 0000:00:07.0 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-756 [Viper]
> ISA (rev 01)
> 0000:00:07.1 IDE interface: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-756 [Viper]
> IDE (rev 07)
> 0000:00:07.3 Bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-756 [Viper] ACPI
> (rev 03)
> 0000:01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. G400/G450
> (rev 04)
> 
> Mikko - what chipset do you have on your board? Maybe its the Irongate
> chipset not able to do those things?

Nothing as new as that - Ali Aladdin V (M1541 rev 04), heh ... with 
M1533 rev c3 ISA bridge and M5229 rev c1 IDE. 

The CPU is a K6-2 450MHz, and is about the latest the motherboard's 
manual has jumper settings for.

I've had this box since 1999 and it was cheapish already back then. No 
parts with dates later than 2000, except maybe the SCSI CD-RW ... even 
the DVD-ROM drive is an early-generation SCSI one recycled from a HP-UX 
server.


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Mikko Nahkola <mnahkola at elisanet.fi>