Below is what I have done so far to download the drivers for a Matrox M9138 graphics card. Have run into an error to update XOrg to 1.15. I believe the present update listed is a 1.20.4.
I am thinking need to revert to a previous version of Xorg 1.15 or is there another way to maybe force the driver software to take the 1.20.4? If I revert to a previous version 1.15. What is the procedure to accomplish and what are the ramifications?
System Configuration
- Device: rob-MS-7998
- Operating system: Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS
- Memory: 62.9 GiB
- Processor: Intel Xeon(R) CPU E3-1240 v5 @ 3.50GHz x 8
- Graphics: 1024x768 llvmpipe (LLVM 8.0,256 bits) The X.Org Foundation
- Graphics card: Matrox M9138 card
- GNOME: 3.28.2
- OS type: 64-bit
- Disk: 982.8 GB
- Motherboard: 1.0/C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) (MSI)
Initial errors that I got:
Creating directory cd /home/rob/m9xdriver-x86_64-1.4.3-80847-20140908-build_98
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing Matrox M9X Driver./m9xdriver-x86_64-1.4.3-80847-20140908-build_98.run: 338: cd: can't cd to cd /home/rob/m9xdriver-x86_64-1.4.3-80847-20140908-build_98
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./m9xdriver-x86_64-1.4.3-80847-20140908-build_98.run: 363: cd: can't cd to cd /home/rob/m9xdriver-x86_64-1.4.3-80847-20140908-build_98
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Matrox Linux Driver Install Script
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ERROR: You must be logged in as Root to run this program.
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The program returned an error code (1)
When tried with sudo privileges:
$ sudo sh m9xdriver-x86_64-1.4.3-80847-20140908-build_98.run
Please, enter the directory to extract the files [/home/rob/] /home/rob/
Creating directory /home/rob//m9xdriver-x86_64-1.4.3-80847-20140908-build_98
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing Matrox M9X Driver........................................................................................................................................................................
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Matrox Linux Driver Install Script
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**ERROR: Xorg 6.9, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5 or xserver 1.9, 1.10, 1.11, 1.12, 1.13, 1.14 or 1.15 not found. Please update Xorg.**
The program returned an error code (1)
Output of apt-cache show xserver-xorg | grep Version:
Version: 1:7.7+19ubuntu7.1
Version: 1:7.7+19ubuntu7
X version:
$ sudo X -version
X.Org X Server 1.20.4
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 4.4.0-148-generic x86_64 Ubuntu
Current Operating System: Linux rob-MS-7998 5.0.0-27-generic #28~18.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Thu Aug 22 03:00:32 UTC 2019 x86_64
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.0.0-27-generic root=/dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-root ro quiet splash vt.handoff=1
Build Date: 02 May 2019 08:06:54AM
xorg-server-hwe-18.04 2:1.20.4-1ubuntu3~18.04.1 (For technical support please see http://www.ubuntu.com/support)
Current version of pixman: 0.34.0
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Output of lspci -vnn | grep VGA -A 12:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Matrox Electronics Systems Ltd. M91XX [102b:0540] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Matrox Electronics Systems Ltd. M9138 LP PCIe x16 [102b:2241]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Memory at dfe20000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
02:00.0 USB controller [0c03]: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1142 USB 3.1 Host Controller [1b21:1242] (prog-if 30 [XHCI])
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] ASM1142 USB 3.1 Host Controller [1462:7998]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at dfd00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
