Re: Bullseye installation problem (with Matrox GPU)

From	Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Bullseye installation problem (with Matrox GPU)
Date	2021-07-07 14:00 +0200
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Felix Miata wrote: 
> > https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.10-Matrox-G200										
> I did a little more experimenting and learned my G550 doesn't need nomodeset for
> the MGA X driver to work, but it only produces 1920x1080 on my 2560x1440 screen,
> and xrandr still can't identify output names.

I believe that the DAC on the G550 is only good up to 2048x1536
(DVI) or 1600x1200 (VGA).

It was pretty good when it was introduced 20 years ago, and not
too bad when the PCIe version was made 15 years ago.

-dsr-

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Re: Bullseye installation problem Chris Bell <chrisbell@chrisbell.org.uk> - 2021-07-06 13:20 +0200
  Re: Bullseye installation problem "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2021-07-06 15:00 +0200
    Re: Bullseye installation problem (with Matrox GPU) Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2021-07-06 22:30 +0200
      Re: Bullseye installation problem (with Matrox GPU) "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2021-07-07 00:40 +0200
        Re: Bullseye installation problem (with Matrox GPU) Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2021-07-07 02:40 +0200
          Re: Bullseye installation problem (with Matrox GPU) Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-07-07 14:00 +0200
          Re: Bullseye installation problem (with Matrox GPU) Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2021-07-07 15:20 +0200
  Re: Bullseye installation problem Chris Bell <chrisbell@chrisbell.org.uk> - 2021-07-06 19:50 +0200

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