Matrox G200 won't work

Thu Jan 15 01:12:43 PST 2015

On Thu, 15 Jan 2015, Felix Miata wrote:
> Andrew Munn composed on 2015-01-15 00:06 (UTC-0800):
> > I'm running a SuperMicro server w/Matrox G200 on the board (16MB).  How 
> > can I fix these errors?  Currently using X is slow and soaks up a ton of 
> > CPU presumably due to software rendering.  Thanks.
> ...
> > [    12.803] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module mga
> > [    12.803] (II) UnloadModule: "mga"
> > [    12.803] (II) Unloading mga
> > [    12.803] (EE) Failed to load module "mga" (module does not exist, 0)
> 
> 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?