[xine-user] Re: syncfb: woes and puzzles

[Matthias D. <mat...@we...>]

On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 09:23:19PM -0800, Jim McCloskey wrote:

> Thanks very much indeed to all who helped---especially Matthew who
> sent a tarball of the latest CVS version of syncfb.

 Like Dr. Ziodberg from Futurama likes to say: "hurray I am helpful" *grin*

> syncfb_matrox.c: In function `mga_config_bes':
> syncfb_matrox.c:211: warning: unused variable `bpda'

 That's normal.

> However, insmod gave an `unresolved symbol' error:
> 
> [root:] insmod syncfb.o
>         syncfb.o: unresolved symbol prefetch

 That's strange. :( I don't get this at all...  so  I  somehow  suspect  that
 this is caused by your strange linux source tree installation. ;-)   If  you
 have some headers mixed during compilation that could cause the trouble.  So
 try to check if this *really* works like you think it does. :)
 
 I am sorry I cannot help you on that - anyone else have some ideas? :-(

> Incidentally, what is the best way to set ownership and permissions
> for the syncfb device-file? At present on my system (from the last
> time I tried) it's like this:

 Do you have devfs running? If so, you should add  the  permissions  to  your
 devfs conf in /etc... yet if you remove rw from others, you will end up with
 xine not being able to use SyncFB for any other user than root.  So actually
 you should keep 'em like that.

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