Matrox G550 dual head crashes 1.5.2 server

[Stefan Dirsch]

On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 10:14:12AM +0200, Dieter und Sigrid Henskes wrote:
> I run a Matrox G550 card in dual head mode. This worked fine under Xorg 7.2 ( 
> Linux Kernel 2.6.22.5-3 in SUSE 10.3 ). But this crashes the Server 1.5.2 
> under Xorg 7.4 in SUSE 11.1 ( Linux Kernel 2.6.27.7-9 ). 

In case you use MergedFB, I've reported this

  https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21022

It would be appreciated if Tilman and/or Ian could shed some light on
this.

If you use Xinerama. This is broken since xorg-server 1.4 anyway. See

  https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20816
  https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20817
  https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20849

> Matrox Support tells me their driver does not support the current
> Xorg-Server.

Not sure what they mean with "their driver", but with regard to the
upstream driver I'm afraid Matrox is no longer interested in anything
than supporting the G200 core for server machines (G200 SE/EV/eW).

> Should I choose another card? 

I'm afraid the answer is yes. :-(

Best regards,
Stefan

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