New subject: 2.6.29-rt1 BootupVideo Mode, more

3 Apr 2009

On Thursday 02 April 2009 17:45:51 torbenh(a)gmx.de wrote:
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  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.

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