Latest driver version is mtx 1.4.6.2

[tuxx-home.at]

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Topic link to 1.4.6.2

[http://forum.tuxx-home.at/viewtopic.php?t=3]

[dejfrcr]

I found a problem with 2.6.20-rc6-mm2 (and probably above), made by removing just another symbol. I mailed with tuxx-home.at and got this patch:

--- mtx_irq.c.orig 2007-02-02 12:53:12.000000000 +0100
+++ mtx_irq.c 2007-02-02 12:53:30.000000000 +0100
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@

/* Request IRQ line */
/* TODO fix the sharing problem*/
- ret = request_irq(dev->pci_dev->irq, mtx_irq_interrupt, SA_SHIRQ, GetPciName(dev->pci_dev), dev);
+ ret = request_irq(dev->pci_dev->irq, mtx_irq_interrupt, IRQF_SHARED, GetPciName(dev->pci_dev), dev);

if (ret < 0)
{

---- it works with 2.6.20-rc6-mm2 and I'm going to porbe rc6-mm3 and rc7-git1, will make it's way to 1.4.4.5, but if somebody needs it now, I placed it here. Just put it in the kernel/src folder and run echo 'the patch I placed here' | patch or put it in file and run patch < file

Thank you again Alex

[dejfrcr]

so the new patch works with 2.6.20-rc6-mm3 and 2.6.20-rc7-git1, the two most bleeding edge versions of kernel. I hope, the final 2.6.20 would behave same way...

[tuxx-home.at]

Hey guys, you're awesome Thanks for updating the information here.
This weekend I'm moving to my new flat and approximately on wednesday
next week, 1.4.4.5 will be out for those of you who aren't experienced enough to patch things up to make them work

In the meantime, thanks for posting it here!

[dejfrcr]

the Xwindow system alltogether is slightly unstable with this kernel. It freezes and the only way out is Alt-PrnScr-E, which completely turns off all services in a bit unfriendly matter. But saves the reset button :)
After return by startx it works again for some hours. It may be problem of the kernel itself (-mm is not stable, it's experimental), but it may be also based on incompatibility with the matrox driver, so we might expect some problems in future, because I suspect the 2.6.20-rc7-git to behave the same way, but I used it only for shorter time. I'm going to reboot to test it. I never got this problem before, and the only changed thing is kernel and that little patch in the driver.

[dejfrcr]

I found some problem when communicating with my software raid with that kernel, without any messages from kernel, but waiting for acces forever. That may be the reason for X freezes even while X does not acces that partition, thats just for data. Who knows?
I rebooted to rc7-git1 and it is running now, I'll see in some hours.

[dejfrcr]

git3 is already compiled, I'll boot it tomorow and see. Problems were probably caused by the -mm kernel. I'm goin to sleep now :)

[dejfrcr]

Hello again,
I'm running 2.6.20-rc7-git3 (which is almost the final 2.6.20) with the patched version of mtx-1.4.4.4 for the whole day without a single problem.
It works, thanks again to you Alex

[tuxx-home.at]

OK, I'm currently building a installable package. Will be up in about 20 minutes.

[tuxx-home.at]

*bump*

Another update, raising the available version to 1.4.4.6

[dejfrcr]

Looks like you made a version jump. Why?

[tuxx-home.at]

No, I didn't. 1.4.4.5 was available, see here for the release notes:

http://tuxx-home.at/archives/2007/02/07/T16_42_26/

But as 1.4.4.6 was available just a few days later, 1.4.4.5 wasn't that
popular.

[tuxx-home.at]

*bump* - 1.4.4.8 is there.

[harvey186]

*bump* - 1.4.4.8 is there.

Hi tuxx-home.at, I'm happy, that someone (you) is working on a driver for my Parhelia DCL256 PCI. I'm using Fedora 6 and I want using the full digital resolution of 1920x1200 and I want enable the Beryl desktop (3D). But in the moment I only get 1600x1200 and no desktop effects. When I install the driver 1.4.4.8 I get the following message:
========================================
Matrox Linux Driver Install Script
========================================
Installing X server driver for X.org 7.1.0
Installing V4L driver for X.org 7.1.0
Messages are being logged in file /tmp/make.log,
this might take some time.
Compiling mtx.ko ...
ERROR: There has been an error compiling the kernel module.
A log file has been created in the file /tmp/make.log
The program returned an error code (1)

What can I do ?
Thanks Harvey
... sorry for my bad english and I'm a absolut Newbee with Linux. If you need additional informations from me, please descripe my step by step what I have to do. Thanks

[tuxx-home.at]

make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.20-1.2944.fc6/build: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden. Schluss.

This is the error message that breaks building.
It means, that the symbolic link mentioned above does not link to the kernel
source directory. This is usually the case when the kernel sources are not
installed on your system.

You may check the target of the symlink with the following command:

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file /lib/modules/2.6.20-1.2944.fc6/build


Usually, the resulting output should be something like "/usr/src/linux-2.6.20-1.2944.fc6".
Check, if this directory exists on your system and if it doesn't, install
the kernel-sources package with the help of your distributions package
management tools.

Afterwards, it should be possible to change into the build directory with
the command `cd` as shown in this example, without an error message
given:

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cd /lib/modules/2.6.20-1.2944.fc6/build


Currently, this is not possible on your system and therefore the Makefile
fails.