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.