[MPlayer-matrox] compilation mga_vid

[Markus Hiereth]

Hello Gergo and Attila,

A) thank You very much for You mga_vid source files.


B) I tried both of them, with
    http://dice.mfa.kfki.hu/dl/mga-vid-2.6.15-rc5.tar.gz
I succeeded.  with the module generated from
    http://attila.kinali.ch/mga/mga_vid-svn-r241.tar.gz
under identical conditions (loaded manually with insmod) I got an error 
message
    Couldn't open driver: /dev/mga_vid

Probably this helps for further improvement.


C) Maybe I could help to update the documentation on
    MPlayer-1.0pre8/DOCS/HTML/xx/output-trad.html#mga_vid

There are technical changes char-major now 83 as announced by both of 
You and some instructions are probably not correct for my Linux 
installation (Ubuntu / Debian):

DOCUMENT                                      
CORRECTION/SUBSTITUTION/ADDITION

-----------------                                          chgrp video 
/dev/mga_vid
-----------------                                          chmod g+w 
/dev/mga_vid
mga_vid.o                                          mga_vid.ko

/etc/modules.conf			/etc/modprobe.conf
alias char-major-178 mga_vid		alias char-major-83 mga_vid

Sequence 1.2.3.4.5                           1., copying module into 
/lib/modules/..., 5., 2.,3.,4.,

I come the the conclusion that a change of sequence  is necessary as, 
having compiled MPlayer as last step, I could not find the device 
/dev/mga_vid anymore. Though it's quite strange, I regard it as possible 
that it has been deleted during compilation. Probably You know what 
really happened on my PC.

In case it helps, I would introduce the changes in into html and pass 
them to the documentation team.


D)
One last thing I do not understand is the repeated appearance of the 
mga_vid in the boot logging. (See attachment dmesg...)

Yours
Markus



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