Re: 2.6.11 Problem with latest mga_vid

On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 11:23 +0100, Todor Dobrikov wrote:
> Hello,
> I' managed to compile the module and to insert it in the kernel but 
> after that when I run mga_vid_test it says that the driver is not loaded.
> dmes:
> Matrox MGA G200/G400/G450/G550 YUV Video interface v2.01 (c) Aaron 
> Holtzman & A'rpi
> mga_vid: Found MGA G550 at 0000:02:00.0 [0000:02:00.0]
> mga_vid: MMIO at 0xe28d8000 framebuffer: 0xE2000000
> mga_vid: OPTION word: 0x400A1520  mem: 0x05  SDRAM
> mga_vid: detected RAMSIZE is 32 MB
> mga_vid: 1 supported cards found
> mga_vid: using major: 83 (assigned or default!)
> 
> This is because I do not have /dev/mga_vid. I am using *pure* udev on 
> 2.6.11 and probably this is causing the problem. I saw that there is 
> *partial* support for udev. What should I do to bring it up?

How about creating the required device node?

`mknod /dev/mga_vid c 83 0`, as it's documented in the mga_vid.c source.

I.e. do by hand what udev does for you. Either that, or wait for us to
finish up udev support.

Ferdinand O. Tempel