On ons, 2003-07-09 at 15:48, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > --- Jakob Sandholm <sand@wanadoo.dk> escribió: > > Hello > > > > I have a Matrox Millennium G200 graphics card. When I use the XV > > extension, videos render scrambled. This does not happen with XSHM (but > > XSHM is too slow). Does anybody know what the problem is? > > > > As a solution, I tried installing 'mga-vid-source', I extracted it to > > /usr/src/modules, cd /usr/src/linux (2.4.19), and did 'make-kpkg > > --append-to-version -k7 modules_image' (I am using debian stock kernel). > > This creates a deb package, that I installed. > > Problem is 'depmod -a' yields 'Unresolved symbols in > > /lib/modules/2.4.19-k7/misc/mga_vid.o' and insmod fails with > > /lib/modules/2.4.19-k7/misc/mga_vid.o: unresolved symbol > > devfs_register_R3d389624 > > /lib/modules/2.4.19-k7/misc/mga_vid.o: unresolved symbol > > register_chrdev_R35b33fbf > > /lib/modules/2.4.19-k7/misc/mga_vid.o: unresolved symbol > > devfs_unregister_R7cf195c4 > > > > Can anyone help me with this? > > > > Kind regards > > sandholm > > > > please make a CC: to my email address, thanks! > > > > Make sure that you are using _axactly_ the same version of gcc for the module > as for the kernel. If you check your dmesg output, the very first line of > output should give you the kernel version, when/where it was compiled, and > the gcc version used. This is what mine looks like: > > Linux version 2.4.21-2.2 (root@toshiba-2805) (gcc version 3.3.1 20030626 > (Debian prerelease)) #1 Tue Jul 8 01:31:11 EDT 2003 > > The easiest way to fix this, if you don't have the necessary version of > gcc readily available (i.e., you run stable and the kernel was compiled > with gcc 3.3), is download the source for your current kernel and unpack it. > Copy your /boot/config-x.x.xx to /usr/src/linux/.config (this way you > don't need to actually configure it), then execute: > > 'make-kpkg --append-to-version -k7 kernel_image modules_image' > > and install the .debs. > > -Roberto > I compiled both the kernel and mga_vid-module with same gcc-version and now modprobe works. Thanks! Only thing is that both XV and vidix (mga_vid) produces bad output. I'll just give up on this card :( -sandholm
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