[Bug 270509] Various x11-drivers/xf86-video drivers erroneously assume that no kernel driver will attach to graphics cards (need local patches)

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=270509

--- Comment #43 from wbe@psr.com ---
(In reply to Stefan B. from comment #42)

Hi, Stefan.

Maybe another BSD (e.g., OpenBSD, NetBSD) would be less work than switching to
some flavor of Linux?

> Matrox MGA is THE onboard graphics chip on server boards.
> Look at Supermicro, HPE and the like.
You mean like my server board or Heikki's HP microservers?  :-)

OTOH, once upon a time (years ago), the VESA driver actually worked better than
the MGA driver for me.  I forget off-hand at which xorg-server major version
change it broke, but the VESA driver now only comes up in "if all else fails"
640x480 mode, and the screen is garbled.  However, since xf86-video-vesa is
still supported, if that were fixed to work on the MGA hardware, I wouldn't
miss the mga driver.

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