[MPlayer-matrox] mga_vid with 2.6.24?

[Attila Kinali]

On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:41:25 +0000
ael <law_ence.dev at ntlworld.com> wrote:

> Attila Kinali wrote:
> > On Sun, 03 Feb 2008 16:00:04 +0000
> > ael <law_ence.dev at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> I just checked out mga_vid from the svn and tried to compile against 2.6.24.
> >>
> >> It failed with a complaint that
> >> 'struct kobject' has no member named 'name'
> > 
> > Yes, old cruft failing on us.
> > 
> > svn up
> 
> Built new version. I am having a small problem with udev creating
> /dev/mga_vid/0 and a symlink to /dev/mga0 while my (debian etch) mplayer
>  is looking for /dev/mga and failing by hitting the directory.

mplayer checks in ./configure whether /dev/mga_vid exists,
if it does (x)mga is compiled. At runtime it tries to access
/dev/mga_div. This looks like you have not properly configured
your udev subsystem. Have you read README.udev?

> I have pulled down the svn version of mplayer and am now compiling that
> just in case it is old mplayer code. Otherwise I will have to start
> debugging udev configuration and rules, I suppose. Is this a known issue?

Nope, i use udev at home and it works fine.

			Attila Kinali

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