didier gaumet <didier.gau...@gmail.com> writes: > Le 15/04/2014 22:01, Mark Carroll a écrit : (snip) >> Rather than trying many more speculative adjustments, I am wondering: >> does anybody else actually have this hardware working with a modern >> xorg under Debian? (snip)
Well, the silence on this point isn't encouraging. > I would suggest to install firmware-linux-non-free if not already > installed, and reboot to test. Yes, got that, currently have the sid one in. (The mga_drv.so downloaded from Matrox instead, doesn't work: undefined symbol: miEmptyData) > If not sufficient, I would try to boot the kernel with the nomodeset > option to disable KMS: I do not know if KMS is enabled at boot for your > graphic card but anyhow, I doubt it can manage it. That's a new to me, thanks. Now done: $ dmesg | grep nomodeset [ 0.000000] Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-amd64 root=UUID=c2a40482-3482-4671-b9a0-58a201e94879 ro nomodeset quiet [ 0.000000] Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-amd64 root=UUID=c2a40482-3482-4671-b9a0-58a201e94879 ro nomodeset quiet > In case of failure, I would inquire about (EE) error codes in > /var/log/Xorg*.log. Regardless of if I have the Matrox mga_hal in place or not, they are: /var/log/Xorg.0.log:[ 317.276] (EE) open /dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory /var/log/Xorg.0.log:[ 317.290] (EE) open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory /var/log/Xorg.0.log:[ 318.164] (EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering See http://pastebin.com/zExRYQ7m (includes the killall xinit after 20s). -- Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87mwfl9jg2....@ixod.org