Adam Bower adam.bower@framestore-cfc.com wrote:
bsamuels@beenthere-donethat.org.uk wrote:
I tried booting using my previous kernel with the same results so I've ruled out the new kernel.
not quite....
I have no idea where, or how, to start looking and some advice is sorely needed and would be very welcome.
(--) PCI: (0:14:0) ATI Mach64 GR rev 39, Mem @ 0xe9000000/24, 0xe8006000/12, I/O @ 0x2000/8 (--) PCI:*(1:5:0) Matrox MGA G400 AGP rev 5, Mem @ 0xf8000000/25, 0xea800000/14, 0xea000000/23
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.
(II) Loading sub module "mga_hal" (II) LoadModule: "mga_hal" (WW) Warning, couldn't open module mga_hal (II) UnloadModule: "mga_hal" (EE) MGA: Failed to load module "mga_hal" (module does not exist, 0) (II) MGA(0): Matrox HAL module not loaded - using builtin mode setup instead
at this point its trying to load an external module that is not there, but it tries to default to something else (possibly a builtin module but I can't tell too much more)
I don't know about an external module but nothing has changed on the machine except a Debian Testing update.
drmOpenDevice: minor is 0 drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) drmOpenDevice: Open failed drmOpenDevice: minor is 0 drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) drmOpenDevice: Open failed [drm] failed to load kernel module "mga" (II) MGA(0): [drm] drmOpen failed (EE) MGA(0): [drm] DRIScreenInit failed. Disabling DRI.
when you built your new kernel did you build in DRI support for your matrox card? what about the ATI card?
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.
In this situation I would think about removing one of the cards from the machine, rebuilding the kernel with the DRI support if that is something that you want/need. Then I would reconfigure X from scratch and try to get it running with only one card, once you have that you can look at adding to your configuration maybe.
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.
I will try and take a longer look for you this evening when I am home, but I do have to rebuild my machine first...
HTH Adam
Thanks very much for your reply. I hope my replies have cleared up some of the points.
Barry Samuels