Re: Lots of problems with Debian unstable on Matrox G200

[Simon Hepburn <sth@blueyonder.co.uk>]

Mukundan Sudarsan wrote:

> I am attaching my XF86Config-4 and my Log file. I have the mga_drv.o
> file in the /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/ directory and hence thats
> not an isssue I suppose...

Would that be the mga_drv.o that came with X 4.2.1 or the one that came in the 
matrox tarball ? I think you need the matrox version to use mga_hal_drv.o. Did 
you copy back the matrox mga_drv.o after you upgraded X ?

If you wish to avoid this problem next time you upgrade X, I suggest you 
ignore the matrox install instructions. Instead put the matrox drivers in a 
seperate directory under /usr/local/ so that they are not touched by package 
upgrades and set a ModulePath in the files section of XF86Config-4.

man XF86Config-4 has all the gory details.

-- 
Simon Hepburn.