[MPlayer-users] Kernel 2.6, mga_vid, tvout & Matrox 400?

D Richard Felker III dalias at aerifal.cx
Tue Feb 17 03:33:25 CET 2004


On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 03:15:48AM +0100, Hanno Mueller wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> I'm struggling to get mga_vid and TV output running with Kernel 2.6.2
> 
> Is there a HOWTO on this?
> 
> I've found some unofficial patch for mga_vid and it compiles and appears 
> to work. i2c-matroxfb leads to a null pointer error message, though...

Last I heard, you have to patch the broken 2.6 fb layer to get back
2.4 functionality. The Linux kernel devs can be totally incompetent
sometimes... Try searching for the patch url; I don't know it right
off.

Rich




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