Wtr.: Re: [MPlayer-matrox] Loading the mga_vid module

[markus.hiereth at freenet.de]

 Hello Attila,
 
 thank You for Your hint. With my SuSE 10.1 system, the way such modules are
 meant to be loaded seems another one:
 
 I found a variable 
    MODULES_LOADED_ON_BOOT 
 in the file
    /etc/sysconfig/kernel.
 
 I introduced mga_vid into this variable. With no regard to the first line
 "module not supported", the rest of the respective boot messages inicate
 that
 there is something going on with module and video card:
  
  <7>dm-netlink version 0.0.2 loaded
  <4>mga_vid: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag.
  <6>Matrox MGA G200/G400/G450/G550 YUV Video interface v2.01 (c) Aaron
  Holtzman & A'rpi
  <6>mga_vid: Found MGA G400/G450 at 0000:01:00.0
  <6>mga_vid: MMIO at 0xe0a50000 framebuffer: 0xDC000000
  <6>mga_vid: OPTION word: 0x50044120  mem: 0x10  SGRAM
  <6>mga_vid: Detected 16MB card reporting 32 MB RAMSIZE, overriding
  <6>mga_vid: detected RAMSIZE is 16 MB
  <6>mga_vid: 1 supported cards found
  <6>mga_vid: using major: 83 (assigned or default!)
  <6>loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
  Kernel logging (ksyslog) stopped.
  Kernel log daemon terminating.
 
 Salut - Markus
 
 
> ----- Forwarded message from Attila Kinali <attila at kinali.ch> -----
> 
> Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 08:38:22 +0100
> From: Attila Kinali <attila at kinali.ch>
> To: MPlayer on Matrox graphics cards <mplayer-matrox at mplayerhq.hu>
> Subject: Re: [MPlayer-matrox] Loading the mga_vid module
> In-Reply-To: <E1H7JVk-0001aM-Dl at www9.emo.freenet-rz.de>
> Organization: NERV
> 
> Moin,
> 
> On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 23:44:04 +0100
> markus.hiereth at freenet.de wrote:
> 
> > they appear only after loading mga_vid by typing modprobe mga_vid I
> thought
> > starting mplayer would initiate some process which loads the module
> > automatically?
> 
> No, the behaviour you want is that of devfs which was
> thrown out of the kernel quite long ago. udev receives
> from the kernel data which hardware is available. But
> therefor the kernel needs to know what hardware it can
> support for which the driver is needed.
> 
> Ie, you need to add the mga_vid module to the list
> of modules that should be loaded at system boot 
> (/etc/modules on my debian).
> 
> 			Attila Kinali
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