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playdafunkimuzic

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Registered: 2008-10-25

Posts: 220

Is there anyway to install arch with the previous version of xorg?

I run arch on my laptop and it runs beautifully. I used to run arch on my desktop with my matrox g450 card which worked fine dual screen, xinerama with xorg 1.4 along with the matrox drivers from that time. Upon a fresh install the dual monitors fail to run with the current version of xorg. It works fine mirrored but once xinerama is enabled on the dual monitor, this comes up:

MGA(0): Unable to map BAR 0. Invalid argument

In an ubuntu forum I have found this patch, but am unsure on how I could apply it, bear in mind I'm using arch.

http://launchpadlibrarian.net/19618287/ … er-3.patch

Also in this bugreport forum are both the debian package installer of the fixed current version driver of mga that works with the current xorg, as well as the orginial package (.tar.gz). Is there anyway this can be used on arch if compiled correctly?

konni

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From: berlin

Registered: 2008-09-25

Posts: 99

Re: Is there anyway to install arch with the previous version of xorg?

first, i dont have a matrox card but compiling worked like this:

downloaded the patch, changed
--- old-src/mga_driver.c    2008-11-13 15:11:35.000000000 +0000
to
--- src/mga_driver.c    2008-11-13 15:11:35.000000000 +0000

got the PKGBUILD for the xf86-video-mga driver, altered it to use the patch, ran makepkg and got the package.

http://konni.giev.de/PKGBUILD

maybe it works for you

playdafunkimuzic

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Registered: 2008-10-25

Posts: 220

Re: Is there anyway to install arch with the previous version of xorg?

ah thanks, i'm going to try it!