Matrox Foibles
After my nvidia card died, I had to settle for a Matrox g200 (agp) to get my
system on line again. This card is not the worst around, only 8m, supports
3d-acceleration, allbeit, no screamer.
So ... it was working. I noticed errors asking for a firmware. Found a
firmware-linux package and gave it the firmware. Thought all was well.
To test if firmware made things better, I tried Chromium, system froze up,
tried ppracer, system froze up. Big red switch time.
Xorg.0.log has a lot of warnings of not supporting video mode 0x2*.
Removed firmware.
Warnings gone but drm fails to init with a DMA -2 error
I can recycle through this install/uninstall and duplicate the results.
Bug? libdrm? firmware-linux?
Need something in xorg.conf?
2.6.29 Problem (I had 2.6.23.rt1 when I saw drm working with this card)?
IRQ conflict (possibly with ide1)?
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