# Re: \[PATCH v2\] matroxfb: remove incorrect Matrox G200eV support

- From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt \<benh@kernel.crashing.org\>
- Date: 2011-03-07 09:23:40 
- List: linux-fbdev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-fbdev/2011/03/3686627
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-fbdev/2011/03/3684282/t.md

```text
On Fri, 2011-03-04 at 12:29 -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> This is all quite strange -- 2.5 years ago when I wrote the patch it
> seemed to
> work ok.  On newer revisions of the x3650M2 it seems broken.  The
> original
> machine I wrote it for was cut up ages ago.
> 
> I suppose we could simply blacklist any G200eV with a subsystem vendor
> ID of
> 0x1014 (IBM) until we figure out how to correct the driver.  Our
> customers will
> be deprived, but as it seems to be broken across most of our product
> lines I
> doubt any of them are making serious use of it anyway. :)
> 
> Something like this? 

Does X work with the open source drivers ? In that case a better
approach would be to try to figure out what's different between the way
the 2 drivers setup the card registers and fix matroxfb..

Cheers,
Ben.


```