I do have a server with Matrox G200eW3 (on-board) on Debian Bookworm, but graphic display fails. There is a small _ in the top left corner, but that's all. Still the terminals (ctrl-alt 2/3/4/5) are working. When I put in Nvidea PCI Graphic all is fine.
lshw
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: Integrated Matrox G200eW3 Graphics Controller
vendor: Matrox Electronics Systems Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:04:00.0
logical name: /dev/fb0
version: 04
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom fb
configuration: depth=32 driver=mgag200 latency=64 maxlatency=32 mingnt=16 resolution=1680,1050
resources: irq:16 memory:40000000-40ffffff memory:41808000-4180bfff memory:41000000-417fffff memory:c0000-dffff
dmesg | grep mgag
[ 1.939538] mgag200 0000:04:00.0: vgaarb: deactivate vga console
[ 1.946779] [drm] Initialized mgag200 1.0.0 20110418 for 0000:04:00.0 on minor 0
[ 1.989215] fbcon: mgag200drmfb (fb0) is primary device
[ 2.408649] mgag200 0000:04:00.0: [drm] fb0: mgag200drmfb frame buffer device
lsmod | grep mgag
mgag200 69632 0
drm_shmem_helper 20480 1 mgag200
drm_kms_helper 208896 3 mgag200
i2c_algo_bit 16384 1 mgag200
drm 614400 4 drm_kms_helper,drm_shmem_helper,mgag200
On another server with same Matrox GPU the lsmod for mgag200 shows used 1 and I have a graphic desktop display.
Removing the mgag200 with rmmod also the terminals are gone, still I can connect with ssh.
modprobe mgag200 does not report any error, still the used count of lsmod stays zero and there is no graphic desktop.
Don't know what's failing me ...
thx for any hints!
