My Matrox G200 died with 2.5.51

My Matrox G200 died with 2.5.51

[nomero]

Hi all.
I compiled the new 2.5.51 kernel and enabled the new framebuffer with 
the VESA generic driver.
My system is a Slackware 8.0. My graphic card was a Matrox G200 and the 
resolution of fb console was 1024 X 768, 16M of colors (0x318).
When I rebooted with my new kernel, i noted that fb didn't work well 
(when i switched from a tty to another, some parts of the first tty were 
"pasted" to the second).
When I rebooted, my Matrox G200 died definetly.  I've made something 
wrong or it's an fb's bug?
If it is a bug, I hope to have been helpful.
see you,

    Moreno




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Re: My Matrox G200 died with 2.5.51

[James Simmons]

> I compiled the new 2.5.51 kernel and enabled the new framebuffer with 
> the VESA generic driver.
> My system is a Slackware 8.0. My graphic card was a Matrox G200 and the 
> resolution of fb console was 1024 X 768, 16M of colors (0x318).
> When I rebooted with my new kernel, i noted that fb didn't work well 
> (when i switched from a tty to another, some parts of the first tty were 
> "pasted" to the second).
> When I rebooted, my Matrox G200 died definetly.  I've made something 
> wrong or it's an fb's bug?
> If it is a bug, I hope to have been helpful.
> see you,

Your card died :-( Sounds like your hardware bit the dust. The VESA code 
isn't able to kill any cards as it depends on the BIOS to do the right 
thing.




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