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



On Sun, 2009-07-19 at 09:16 +0300, David Baron wrote:
> On Sunday 19 July 2009 02:23:52 Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 01:07:04PM +0300, David Baron wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > Does this still occur in the 2.6.30 kernel?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >         Moritz
> 
> Yes.
> 
> With firmware-linux installed, attempts at DRI will hang.
> 
> Right now, I am running with the warp.c and ucode.h sources from 2.6.28 until 
> this is fixed.

Please try installing the firmware from
<http://womble.decadent.org.uk/tmp/firmware/>.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Unix is many things to many people,
but it's never been everything to anybody.

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