Until I can get something else on the level of an nvidia, I am stuck with this old clunker. I have installed the required firmware-linux and mga-vid which is recommended for video viewing with this card.
Problem: Any attempt at DRI freezes system. This may be a bug in the firmware after being taken out of the kernel driver because it worked in 2.6.28 kernels. (Firmware which is nonfree was separated out in 2.6.29.) Problem: Attempts to play video (wmv) crash vlc and xine. Mplayer will run but video does not show. I tried modprob the matroxfb_base (which modprobes all the others) and then the mga-vid (which will segfault without the matroxfb_ modules). The matroxfb_ stuff makes the console go funny but doing anything else, i.e. switching to an X session or modprobing the mga-vid recovers). With all this stuff loaded, choosing the mga-scale backend, mplayer still shows no video. With or without the fb stuff, I can get thumbnails off the CD. What am I doing wrong? How should the init scripts be done to correctly load the modules without untoward side effect? Any solution to the DRI problem? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
