[MPlayer-matrox] compilation mga_vid

[Tamas, Gergely]

Hi Marcus!

 > 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

mga_vid from Attila still misses udev support (see mail in this thread
for patch).

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

You loaded and unloaded the module multiple times.

On insmod :

[...] Matrox MGA G200/G400/G450/G550 YUV Video interface v2.01 (c) Aaron Holtzman & A'rpi
[...] mga_vid: Found MGA G400/G450 at 0000:01:00.0
[...] mga_vid: MMIO at 0xe0b78000 framebuffer: 0xDC000000
[...] mga_vid: OPTION word: 0x50044120  mem: 0x10  SGRAM
[...] mga_vid: Detected 16MB card reporting 32 MB RAMSIZE, overriding
[...] mga_vid: detected RAMSIZE is 16 MB
[...] mga_vid: 1 supported cards found
[...] mga_vid: using major: 83 (assigned or default!)

And on rmmod :

[...] mga_vid: Cleaning up module

Gergo