Re: Help with DRM / DRI on Matrox G400

[Mark Zimmerman <mark@foresthaven.com>]

On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 12:08:56PM -0800, Slava ZHdanobvich wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 19:23:03 -0800
> Paul Mackinney <pmackinney@speakeasy.net> wrote:
> 
> > I've got a Matrox Millenium G400, and recently installed a DVDROM drive.
> > Unfortunately, Xine drops too many frames to really watch anything
> > (mpeg & avi files play fine).
> > 
> > I've been trying to tweak my video performance, and notice the following
> > errors in my X log:
...snip...
> > [drm] failed to load kernel module "mga"
> > (II) MGA(1): [drm] drmOpen failed
> > (EE) MGA(1): [drm] DRIScreenInit failed.  Disabling DRI.
> > 

It looks like you do not have the necessary kernel module(s). You need
these:

CONFIG_AGP=m
CONFIG_DRM_NEW=y
CONFIG_DRM_MGA=m

If you use xconfig, they are near the bottom of 'Character devices'

-- Mark