[Hudlug] Matrox cards, Xinerama and AA, fix

[Chris Lindley]

Hi all,

I know at least a few of you out there are using a Xinerama setup, with
a Matrox card.

Well as you know :-(  there are many problems with this setup with
anti-aliased fonts, ranging from some characters missing (whenever a
button changes shape on a mouse over) to major character corruption and
ghost characters appearing on the second head!

Well, i seem to have found a fix is available.  It seems the problem is
with the Xfree86 4.2 mga.o driver being buggy.  It does not deal with
the Render function particularly well.

If you add Option "XaaNoOffscreenPixmaps" to your XF86Config-4 file this
fixes it, without any apparent problems. 

There's a lot more explantion (far better than I've done) on this web
forum http://forum.matrox.com/mgaforum/Forum2/HTML/001726.html.

Apparently it will be fixed in 4.3

Cheers
Chris

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  Chris Lindley                                  
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