[MPlayer-matrox] Re: mga_vid

[Attila Kinali]

On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 18:26:39 +0100
Vít Pelčák <v.pelcak at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've found your e-mail address in mga_vid driver 

There is a mailinglist devoted for questions about mga_vid:
http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-matrox
You should subscribe and ask questions there.

> and I'd like to ask
> you how to get it work. I downloaded mga-vid-2.6.15-rc5.tar.gz,

Where the heck did you get that from? I did not make a release
for 2.6.15 (not talk about -rc's as i definitly do not have
the time for them)

> unpacked, ran make and make install, then depmod -a. I have compiled
> mplayer with mga and xmga support, but when I set vo in config to mga
> or xmga, it fails to play some movie:
> open: No such file or directory
> vo_mga: Couldn't open /dev/mga_vid
> Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device.

Check the permissions of the file and it's major number.
 
> modprobe mga_vid does does segfault and when I run it in

Segfault? What command did you use, which program did segfault?

> /lib/modules/2.6.14-archck7/extra , it does nothing (it neither
> creates devices nor puts some test output to the console).
> And after restart lnsmod says, that I have no mga_vid loaded. Is there
> problem with udev (ver 0.0.79) or just bad version of mga_vid?

My mga_vid versions don't have udev support (didn't had the time
to incoperate the patches i got), but i doubt that this will
be a problem.


			Attila Kinali

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