From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932194Ab1GLXHl (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jul 2011 19:07:41 -0400 Received: from ishtar.tlinx.org ([173.164.175.65]:51697 "EHLO Ishtar.tlinx.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932073Ab1GLXHk (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jul 2011 19:07:40 -0400 Message-ID: <4E1CD3AF.5070602@tlinx.org> Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:07:27 -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: Francois Romieu CC: LKML Subject: Re: device support VGA compat Matrox MGA G200ew References: <4E1CB962.1000308@tlinx.org> <20110712222600.GA6207@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> In-Reply-To: <20110712222600.GA6207@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> 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 Francois Romieu wrote: > Linda Walsh : > [...] > >> 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? >> > > Yes. lspci should list an AGP bridge. > ---- ok...then that's not the case. It's a built-in graphics on a server, so it's not meant to be fancy.. just provide a basic console. > See http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1505532 > > X seems to know the G200eW. It may help you figuring if > drivers/video/matrox/* (see matroxfb_base.c for the IDs) can be made > to work with this revision or not. > ---- hmmm... so might be a matter of the driver not recognizing the card's specific id? > No idea if in-kernel DRM support still works. Imho it will fly like > a brick. > --- yeah, well w/o agp, it's a non-issue. I.e., it flew like lead brick.