Surgery and Aftermath (SOLVED?)
> compiled 2.6.30-2 off Sid, built and booted up just fine.
>Firmware-linux for matrox cards is incorrect. So I tried some surgery. I tool
>mga-warp.c and mga-ucode.h from 2.6.28, which had working firmware, and
>placed in the 2.6.30 sources (after having saved the orignal mga-warp.c and
>the working image deb.
>I ran make-kpkg, this compiled the mga-warp, LD'd the mga module and built
>normally. When I tried to boot this image:
>Attempt 1 -- beep, bios check, setup signature not found
>Attempt 2 -- loading 2.6.30 ........... and then stopped there
>So I booted up 2.6.29 and reinstalled the previous 2.6.30 image that had
>booted previously.
>Got the same result!
>Note that I never got to starting Xorg to see if the mga module I changed is
>valid or not. Never loaded ANY modules. What might be happening and how would
>I fix this (I am using lilo which was not changed)?
After complete shutdown, it booted up OK (I guess this is the first thing to
try on such problems!).
The matrox mga acceleration works (such as it is--not the best card in the
world but by nvidia died).
So the little surgery succeded. I will undo it when and if firmware-linux is
fixed.
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