Problem with Matrox MGA G200eW video driver.
Ben Greear
greearb at candelatech.com
Fri Aug 16 17:03:04 UTC 2013
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
>
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Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
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