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Hello to the list.</div>
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I am trying to use a new old stock G550 PCIe card with an IBM P92 19" monitor for photo retouching.</div>
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Here is my env:</div>
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Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS<br>
Xorg 7.7<br>
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xserver-xorg-video-mga 2.0.0</div>
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Linux kernel 5.4.0-59-lowlatency<br>
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I know that acceleration is broken in 2.0.0 for G550 as reported in:</div>
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<a href="https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2018-December/059551.html" id="LPlnk815578">https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2018-December/059551.html</a></div>
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What about gamma?</div>
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I have the following error message<br>
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xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default</div>
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and I cannot set the gamma levels.</div>
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This limitation is undocumented in mga man page and repo.</div>
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I am evaluating to replace the G550 with a G450 since the latter supports acceleration, but I'd like to check whether the gamma works on it.</div>
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Thanks for reading</div>
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Raf<br>
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