[MPlayer-dev-eng] New patched svgalib_helper-1.9.23 that works with kernel 2.6

Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski dominik at rangers.eu.org
Sun Nov 13 23:46:26 CET 2005


On Sunday, 13 November 2005 at 10:48, Vladimir Mosgalin wrote:
> 
> With unpatched helper (what's the point in patching it, anyway? You just
> extract svgalib source, go to kernel/svgalib_helper, "make; make
> install; cp svgalib_helper.h <someone where mplayer will find it>" and
> it works)

Indeed, but svgalib is almost 1MB while the helper itself is only a few
KBs large. The point of the patch is to make it independent.

> I have no problems with large movies, like 800x450 or 1920x1080.

Hm. What gfx card?

R.

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