[LAU] 2.6.29-rt1 BootupVideo Mode, more

David Baron d_baron at 012.net.il
Tue May 5 10:08:07 EDT 2009


On Friday 03 April 2009 11:02:51 David Baron wrote:
> 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.
>rt kernel still unusable.
>will see have having firmware improves other things.

NEWS.

The kerbloooey last until the new console-setup for Xorg in Debian Sid runs. 
Then the console is miraculously usable again.

This should give a solid clue as how to fix this problem! Please relay to 
Ingo.




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