[MPlayer-dev-eng] mga driver for G200MMS

Hetz Ben-Hamo hetz at kde.org
Mon Dec 10 16:47:37 CET 2001


Not sure about it, but Matrox G200MMS is a completly different beast then the 
well known G400 Max, so I really don't know if you can pull it together with 
G200MMS..

Hetz

On Monday 10 December 2001 17:30 pm, Nicolas DEVERGE wrote:
> Hi,
> I made a lot of tests, and I saw that for my configuration, the mga driver
> provides the best results (I know it's not a surprise...).
>
> But the problem is that the driver works only for one of my several g200
> chips (the first one in fact), so I would like to know if it is possible to
> make 4 mga_vid devices (for instance, /dev/mga_vid1, /dev/mga_vid2,
> /dev/mga_vid3 and /dev/mga_vid4), and then to load 4 times the mga_vid.o
> driver (with a parameter which indicates which g200 chip to use).
> Then when I will start mplayer, I will need to specify which device to use
> (for instance, -vo mga:1 or -vo mga:2 etc...) and it will display the video
> on the right screen.
>
> I tried to understand and modify the mga_vid.c driver, but as I am not
> confident with programming video drivers, I am a bit dismissed. So, if
> someone can tell me where I can find documentation about the g200 chip,
> maybe I will be able to bring some modifications for the driver.
> Thanks for answer,
> Nicolas
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