[MPlayer-dev-eng] RPM package - features

Jiri Svoboda jiri.svoboda at seznam.cz
Mon Apr 29 16:56:11 CEST 2002


[snip]
> > How will you include mga_vid,sis_vid... drivers? Without 
> them output 
> > driver mga, xmga has nearly no sense.
> 
> I can only include support for these, not the drivers 
> themselves. Including the drivers would require building 
> additional packages. Of course I could do that, I suppose. I 
> mean, the docs are pretty straightforward on this: [...] To 
> use it, you first have to compile mga_vid.o:
> 
>     cd drivers
>     make
> 
> Then create /dev/mga_vid device:
> 
>     mknod /dev/mga_vid c 178 0
> 
> and load the driver with
> 
>     insmod mga_vid.o
> [...]
> But doesn't it depend on kernel version?
Yes, it depends - but just only mga_vid.o.

So it should be good to include source for mga_vid into package (is it
possible/wise to do that?). User will be able to compile them without
downloading whole source code.

				JS




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