Re: Problem with Matrox MGA G200eW video driver.

[Ben Greear]

On 08/15/2013 06:37 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> [    26.150] (**) MGA(0): Using "Shadow Framebuffer" - acceleration disabled
>
> apparently says that acceleration was deliberately disabled in the
> config file (i.e. somewhere inside /etc/X11/xorg.conf or inside
> xorg.conf.d directory). This is the meaning of the (**).
>
> Also, AFAIK Gnome3 requires accelerated graphics (at least it did last
> time I checked). You may be better off trying Mate, XFCE, LXDE, KDE, or
> some lightweight window manager without a full DE.

Ahh, Mate looks very nice, and seems to use less CPU than Gnome-3.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Thanks,
Ben
> HTH, :-)
> Marko