Matrox dual-head graphics card not working in edgy

[James Cummings]

On 2/3/07, Gary Jarrel <garyjarrel at gmail.com> wrote:
> I ran into a similar problem with my quad head card, try passing the
> -ignoreABI switch to xorg when starting. Perhaps
> http://www.nabble.com/gdm-and--ignoreABI-for-Xorg-in-Fedore-Core-6-t2520878.html
> might be of some help as well!

Hi Gary,

Thanks!  Ignoring ABI didn't work in xorg.org but did when added to
gdm.conf!  Back in multimonitor heaven.

-James


>
> Cheers,
>
> -garyj
>
> On 1/31/07, James Cummings <cummings.james at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hiya,
> >
> > A recent upgrade to edgy has killed my dual-head matrox card.  By that
> > I mean that it now only works with one monitor.
> >
> > I believe this is because there isn't a mga_hal driver available for xorg 7.1.1.
> >
> > the xorg log says:
> >
> > (II) Module mga_hal: vendor="Matrox Graphics Inc. - x86_32 - Release v4.4.0"
> >         compiled for 7.0.0, module version = 1.0.0
> >         ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 0.8
> > (EE) module ABI major version (0) doesn't match the server's version (1)
> > (II) UnloadModule: "mga_hal"
> > (II) Unloading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/mga_hal_drv.so
> >
> > So I assume this means I need to hold on until matrox release an
> > updated driver?  I just thought I'd ask in case I'm missing something.
> >  Once you have two monitors going back to one feels so constricting.
> >
> > -James
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