[MPlayer-matrox] Re: mga_vid.c smp problem

[Ferdinand O. Tempel]

On Sun, 2005-04-10 at 02:01 +0200, Peter Magnusson wrote:
> A friend that also got a G400 told me that he had gotten it to work in 
> 2.6.10. He didnt have the orginal archive and didnt remember where he got 
> it from, but he did a tar.gz for me. That version worked DIRECTLY! I was so 
> suprised. TV-out worked aswell.
> 
> [root at flashdance dev]# ll mga*
> crw-rw----  1 root 83, 0 Apr  8 22:08 mga_vid
> 
> It uses 83 as major number.
> 
> It isnt your version and it appears that it isnt this version
> http://www.linuxops.net/~pw/mga_vid/ either because I download it and
> it didnt compile.

>From my webpage:

*** UPDATE ***
The Mplayer developer has put out his own 2.6 port for mga_vid, which you can find at
http://attila.kinali.ch/mga/

This means there is no reason anymore to maintain this patch, so I won't. Please convert to using Attila's driver
instead of this one.
**************

So am I surprised that what worked for 2.6.10 doesn't work for 2.6.11?
No, I'm not as I stopped trying to keep up with the kernel changes
because Attila kindly took over the flag from me. If there is demand I
might maintain my version too, but that seems a bit of a duplication of
effort. Besides, it's not that much different from Attila's anyway.

Anyway, I'm going to have a whack at Attila's driver now as I switched
to 2.6.11 myself. See if it builds and works (I trust it will). If I'm
really bored, I'll try on my SMP box too :-)

Regards,

Ferdinand O. Tempel