[LAU] 2.6.29-rt1 BootupVideo Mode, more

[David Baron]

On Thursday 02 April 2009 17:45:51 torbenh at gmx.de wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 04:21:44PM +0300, David Baron wrote:
> > >Made the kernel, booted fine. Once I got into the graphics kde4. The
> > > text- mode bootup was completely kerlbooey!
> > >
> > >So what might I place in my lilo.conf to get this straightened out
> > > (using an older matrox mila g200 at 1200x1065)? Currently has vga=6.
> >
> > This stuff was in the logs. Very interesting. How to get this stuff to
> > Ingo? Apr  1 13:35:03 d_baron kernel: [drm] Initialized card for AGP DMA.
> > Apr  1 13:35:04 d_baron kernel: platform mga_warp.0: firmware: requesting
> > matrox/g200_warp.fw
> > * * * [snip]
> > Apr  1 13:35:04 d_baron kernel: [drm:mga_warp_install_microcode] ERROR
> > mga: Failed to load microcode "matrox/g200_warp.fw"
> > Apr  1 13:35:04 d_baron kernel: [drm:mga_do_init_dma] ERROR failed to
> > install WARP ucode!: -2
>
> do you have the firmware installed ?

OK, saw those two error message in the plain kernel as well.
Found a debian firmware-linux package that lists matrox g200 so see if that 
helps!

Thanks for the clue.