MGA on PowerPC64 color issues

Tilman Sauerbeck tilman at code-monkey.de
Sun Oct 28 13:57:52 PDT 2007


Markus Rothe [2007-10-27 16:16]:

Hi,

> I was using xorg-server-1.3 with xf86-video-mga-1.4.6.1 on my IBM RS/6000 
> (PPC64, i.e. 64bit kernel+userland) with success. DRI 'broke' the colors, so 
> I didn't enable it.
> 
> I have updated to xorg-server-1.4 with xf86-video-mga-1.4.7 and now the colors 
> are broken with DRI disabled and with DRI enabled.
> 
> What do I mean with broken colors? Well.. look yourself: [1]. And this is how 
> it should look like (a screenshot done with ksnapshot): [2].
> 
> This is a GXT135, which is a re-branded Matrox  G400/G450. lspci shows this:
> 
> 0001:41:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G400/G450 
> (rev 85)
> 
> Here is my xorg.conf [3] and the Xorg.0.log [4].
> 
> Is this a configuration issue, or should I open a bug in bugzilla?

Please open a bug. Also, it would be great if you could take the time to
run git-bisect on the driver to find the changeset that introduced that
breakage as I'm clueless to what it could be.

Regards,
Tilman

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