Wtr.: Re: Loading the mga_vid module

[m***@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

Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 08:38:22 +0100
Subject: Re: [MPlayer-matrox] Loading the mga_vid module
Organization: NERV
Moin,
On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 23:44:04 +0100

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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http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-matrox
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[Attila Kinali]

N'abend,

On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 18:30:58 +0100

Post by m***@freenet.de
<4>mga_vid: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag.

Looks like, Novell implemented a system where thay can
flag modules they do not support themselves.

Post by m***@freenet.de
<6>Matrox MGA G200/G400/G450/G550 YUV Video interface v2.01 (c) Aaron
Holtzman & A'rpi

But it loads the module anyways. So everything is fine.
You should be able to use it.

BTW; please refrain from using TOFU[1] thanks.


Attila Kinali

[1] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOFU