Change video driver or did anyone used Matrox driver in past N years?

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Hi,
I have some Core2 motherboard with (as linux’s lspci says)

01:07.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA 2064W [Millennium] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
        Flags: stepping, medium devsel, IRQ 11
        Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Memory at f3000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=8M]
        [virtual] Expansion ROM at f3800000 [disabled] [size=64K]

plugged as video card.
It’s known to work with linux and works fine.
For my surprise, A4.1 also boots on that computer but when it shows the blue desktop the screen is striped by vertical (also blue) lines (looks like if there is not enough memory for this mode? but on linux is does 1152x800? in lots of colors).

When I open Screen Prefs and click on “blue screen” icon it says that it’s, yes, Matrox (not VESA)
I’ve tried to change video mode to 640x480x256 - no changes.
I’ve tried to boot with “Use fail-safe video mode” - it boots with blinking icons, but when it’s time to show the desktop it blanks the monitor (but works, allowing me to ssh inside). This also happens when I renamed matrox and matrox.idonotrememberwhat files.

Questions are:
Is matrox driver still working? (I mean, haven’t someone broke it?)
Is there any reason for VESA driver not to work?
Is there any way to force some drivers to be blacklisted or to manage them somehow?
Is there any settings for drivers (Matrox, especially)?

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I blacklist a driver by going to bin folder, zipping the file, and deleting the original,then reboot.

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Is matrox driver still working? (I mean, haven’t someone broke it?)

Most likely it’s a bug in the matrox driver. Please file it at http://dev.haiku-os.org

Is there any reason for VESA driver not to work?

Sounds like VESA driver has some problems with your hardware (graphic card or monitor). If you can ssh to this box, grab a syslog and file another ticket.

Is there any way to force some drivers to be blacklisted or to manage them somehow?

It is enough to just rename the driver binary in question. E.g. matrox to matrox.disabled

Is there any settings for drivers (Matrox, especially)?

http://cgit.haiku-os.org/haiku/tree/src/add-ons/kernel/drivers/graphics/matrox/matrox.settings
Put it into /boot/home/config/settings/kernel/drivers