From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755731Ab1GLVUT (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jul 2011 17:20:19 -0400 Received: from ishtar.tlinx.org ([173.164.175.65]:50856 "EHLO Ishtar.tlinx.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754845Ab1GLVUS (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jul 2011 17:20:18 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 300 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 12 Jul 2011 17:20:17 EDT Message-ID: <4E1CB962.1000308@tlinx.org> Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:15:14 -0700 From: Linda Walsh User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.24) Gecko/20100228 Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.24 Mnenhy/0.7.6.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: LKML Subject: device support VGA compat Matrox MGA G200ew X-Stationery: 0.5.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I was reviewing my kernel config and seeing what devices were handled by what drivers -- and that all of them were configurable via kernel devices. I used an lspci -bkv to show me the kernel driver being used for each device. One that would seem to be of some importance is the graphics controller. There were some others devs that were 'unclaimed', but don't know that they have a tangible effect and have yet to try a few options, so won't bother with them here, but this one is a puzzler: 08:03.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G200eW WPCM450 (rev 0a) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Dell PowerEdge T610 MGA G200eW WPCM450 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10 Memory at d9800000 (32-bit, prefetchable) Memory at de7fc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) Memory at de800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1 I have tried the dev support under the 'frame buffer devs' for Matrox accel, with ghe G100/G200/... options checked 'on' (and Matrox I2C support as a module). But that modules doesn't seem to be attached to this HW. The only other Matrox G200 related option under the DRM support, but it says it requires /dev/agpgart to be enabled. I know the computer doesn't have an AGP 'slot' (the card is built-in), but is is possible AGP would still be the choice for the interface? Other ideas or not-supported? Thanks! Linda