Hi, first post here.
I'm attempting hardware acceleration but I don't know if I'm needing driver support or not.
I started out with 2.4.27 kernel and found precomplied
2.6.8-11-amd64-k8 kernel.
Everything works nicely after apt-get install / reboot except glx.

uanme -a
Linux giz2z 2.6.8-11-amd64-k8 #1 Sun Oct 2 21:26:54 UTC 2005 x86_64 GNU/Linux

lspci

0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: ALi Corporation: Unknown device 1689
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: ALi Corporation: Unknown device 5246
0000:00:02.0 PCI bridge: ALi Corporation M5249 HTT to PCI Bridge
0000:00:03.0 ISA bridge: ALi Corporation M1563 HyperTransport South Bridge (rev 70)
0000:00:03.1 Bridge: ALi Corporation M7101 Power Management Controller [PMU]
0000:00:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: ALi Corporation M5455 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device (rev 20)
0000:00:0e.0 IDE interface: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (rev c7)
0000:00:0e.1 Unknown mass storage controller: ALi Corporation: Unknown device 5289 (rev 10)
0000:00:0f.0 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:0f.1 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:0f.2 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:0f.3 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 2.0 Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
0000:00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
0000:00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
0000:00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G400 AGP (rev 03)
0000:02:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
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lsmod | grep agpgart

giz2z:/var/log# lsmod
Module Size Used by
isofs 36492 0
ipv6 264296 17
af_packet 23308 2
8139cp 21312 0
ehci_hcd 30852 0
snd_intel8x0 35988 0
snd_ac97_codec 73220 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm 100876 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_timer 24968 1 snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 12944 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
gameport 5120 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_mpu401_uart 8192 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_rawmidi 26532 1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device 9164 1 snd_rawmidi
snd 56936 7 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
ohci_hcd 21252 0
ali5455 36132 1
ac97_codec 20568 1 ali5455
soundcore 11232 3 snd,ali5455
8139too 26048 0
mii 6016 2 8139cp,8139too
tsdev 8576 0
mousedev 11852 2
evdev 10944 0
nls_cp437 7296 1
ntfs 89704 1
psmouse 19340 0
ide_cd 42016 0
cdrom 39208 1 ide_cd
ext3 119760 2
jbd 58288 1 ext3
mbcache 9928 1 ext3
ide_generic 1856 0
ide_disk 20864 6
alim15x3 12760 1
ide_core 154336 4 ide_cd,ide_generic,ide_disk,alim15x3
sd_mod 21440 0
ata_piix 9028 0
libata 42632 1 ata_piix
scsi_mod 129696 2 sd_mod,libata
unix 29696 450
font 9152 0
vesafb 6960 0
cfbcopyarea 4160 1 vesafb
cfbimgblt 3328 1 vesafb
cfbfillrect 4352 1 vesafb
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I'm assuming I cm needing driver support...I can't find any, not even at the manufacturers website.
I attempted to compile from source includeding the appropriate driver for my chipset compiled as module as suggested, only it doesn't appear (anymore), as an option with make xconfig under the /dev/agpgart section...it used to. It may be a matter of just finding the source.

It appears the drivers for the card itself in installed properly.

glxinfo | grep rendering
direct rendering: No

At this point, I don't know which direction to go...note: I've installed this kernel with apt-get install, no source seems to be available with apt-cache search under the same kernel version number via my /etc/apt/sources.list
Any help and/or direction would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

Looks like you need to build your own kernel with Matrox graphics support added, first it looks like no agpgart module is loaded and no support for the graphics either;

lsmod | grep mga
mga 57984 2
drm 66324 3 mga


That 2.6.8 kernel is a bit old, get the latest released source (2.6.18.2) from;

http://kernel.org/

and build your own with support for the Matrox video card. A snippet from a kernel .config file as an example;

Yes, it does work now.
Thanks for the direction.
--Norman

Your welcome, glad to help.