Matrox G200 won't work

[Felix Miata]

Andrew Munn composed on 2015-01-15 01:12 (UTC-0800):

>> My G400s are still working OK using the mga driver on openSUSE and Mageia.
>> The distro you use may have dropped mga (e.g. Fedora dropped mga due to "no
>> maintainer"), leaving you to fall back on the slower modesetting driver.

> How can I pull in the driver from another distro?

I you're using Fedora, try downloading a package from an earlier release, maybe:
http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/linux/fedora/linux/releases/19/Fedora/i386/os/Packages/x/xorg-x11-drv-mga-1.6.2-7.fc19.i686.rpm

IIRC, I got one F20 installation working downloading the mageia driver
manually and using rpm's force option to install it, and ignoring the error
messages.

If you can't use a distro providing the software you need, maybe you'd be
better off sticking an eBay radeon or nvidia PCI video card in it if it has
no AGP or PCIe slot.
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