[OpenIndiana-discuss] Matrox

[Robin Axelsson]

Another thing occurred to me, perhaps you have a xorg.conf file present 
which prevents Xorg  to autodetect hardware. If you have one, you could 
try to remove it and see if it helps. I'm not sure now where it is 
located in Solaris, it could be in /etc/X11/ but it could be elsweyr. 
I'm not able to check it right now.

On 2011-12-13 12:58, Robin Axelsson wrote:
> Hi,
> normally Xorg should detect all graphics hardware and automatically 
> assign proper drivers to the hardware. If it cannot find the proper 
> driver it usually resorts to the vgatext or vesa driver.
>
> I don't know why your system doesn't assign the matrox driver (or 
> whatever name the Solaris driver for Matrox hardware has) is used for 
> your card; if Xorg fails to identofy the proper driver, if it is 
> incompatible with your hardware or if the driver is not installed at 
> all in your system.
>
> You could also try to manually build your own xorg.conf file and add 
> something along the lines of:
>
> ----------
> Section "Device"
>           Identifier "Builtin Default Matrox Device 0"
>          Driver "matrox"
> EndSection
> ----------
> I think you should also have a Monitor section, a Screen section and a 
> ServerLayout section ...
>
> Robin.
>
>
>
> On 2011-12-13 11:07, Gabriele Bulfon wrote:
>> Hi,
>> my supermicro has Matrox card, but the system shows a vgatext driver 
>> and desktop enhancements
>> are not working (white screen).
>> How can I activate the Matrox driver?
>> Thanx
>> Gabriele.
>>
>>
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