Bug#522956: firmware-matrox: g200-warp firmware from firmware-linux kills system on 3d-acceleration

[David Baron <d_baron@012.net.il>]

On Monday 13 April 2009 01:52:27 Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-04-11 at 21:58 +0300, David Baron wrote:
> [...]
>
> > > What happens if you uninstall the firmware?  The result should be a
> > > fallback to software rendering.
> >
> > This is what happens.
>
> Your bug report is for firmware-linux.  If you have not installed it,
> clearly you have not found a bug in the repackaging of the firmware but
> in the code added to the mga DRM driver for the missing-firmware case.
>
> Please confirm whether or not you have installed firmware-linux.  If
> not, please install it and report whether 3D acceleration works again.
>
> Ben.

I obviously installed firmware-linux.

Right now, report but, if it FINDS the named package, dies with an error. So 
doing it this way allowed me to report the bug.