[MPlayer-users] [Fwd: Compile mga_vid with kernel 2.6.0 (?)]

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 04:51:09PM +0900, Georgi Georgiev wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> maillog: 11/01/2004-03:46:10(+0100): "Gilles Sadowski"@harfang.homelinux.org types
> > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> 
> > Hello.
> > 
> > Is there a way to build 'mga_vid' on kernel 2.6.0 ?
> > 
> > I tried 'make' in mplayer's source "drivers" directory, but it seems there
> > have been changes in the 'pci_dev' and 'i_rdev' types, so that does'nt
> > compile.
> > 
> > I also tried the above, which generates even more errors (in files
> > '/usr/include/asm/mpspec.h' and '/usr/include/asm/io_apic.h' -- I don't
> > understand why it is looking in those directories...)
> 
> I am using the patch from
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.mplayer.devel/12886 and it works fine
> on 2.6.1

Since you seem to be successfully using a matrox card with 2.6, could
you tell whether matroxfb works (with or without patching)? I've heard
lots of really bad things about 2.6's fb and I'd like to hear a report
from an mplayer user...

Rich