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"Niels R. Walet" <[log in to unmask]>
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Niels R. Walet
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Fri, 1 Sep 2006 17:33:20 +0100
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Urs Beyerle wrote:
> Niels Walet wrote:
>   
>> It seems that the latest update to xorg breaks the mga driver: at least I
>>
>> get all kinds of weirdness on a few of my older systems with a G200 graph
>> icscard!
>>     
> What kind of weirdness?
>   
Random pixels flickering, weird coloured hatching in certain squares of 
the screen.
This happens at all resolutions
> I had recently some problems with the G200 and the mga driver on SL4:
> The best resolution I could get working was 800x600. But this was
> already before the xorg update.
>   
No, it was working fine at 1280x1024
>> Anyone seen the same/know a work around?
>>     
> I change to the vesa driver. The performance is ok and it's working.
>
> Urs
>
>   
Yup, that's what I did--but I couldn't get it too work at full screen 
resolution.

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