bsamuels@beenthere-donethat.org.uk wrote:
you have 2 gfx cards? it looks like the Matrox one is being made default. This is maybe what you want or not I can't tell =)
Not exactly. There is an ATI video chip on the main board which I don't use as it's not as good as the Matrox G400. It has always been so.
can you disable the onboard (ATI) video in the Bios? If you can I would *really* recommend doing this.
I don't know about an external module but nothing has changed on the machine except a Debian Testing update.
the external module is a part of X windows to allow additional capabilities for specific cards, it was complaining it couldn't find a module but appeared to carry on so it may not be needed for starting X. I don't know anything about Matrox cards as I have no experience with them.
What's DRI support? The kernel configuration hasn't changed. The kernel source update appeared to be a very minor one. 2.4.19-something to 2.4.19-somethingelse.
Direct Rendering Infrastructure, http://dri.sourceforge.net/ you may not need it.
I obviously can't remove the onboard chip and I don't want to remove the G400 especially as it's been working well for months and months.
but you hopefully can disable it =) if you have a spare monitor around you could even use it to go dual head and have two displays =)
It is possible that either the new Debian X packages are broken, or perhaps don't have the matrox drivers included etc. etc. I would try looking online a configuration guide maybe. Failing that/also you should perhaps look on the Debian mailing lists and possibly look to see if anyone else has reported this as a bug etc.
One other thing to check is to see if the upgrade replaced your X config file it lives in /etc/X11/ and is called XF86Config-4
HTH Adam