[MPlayer-matrox] Black screen with vo xmga

[Attila Kinali]

Moin,

On Wed, 05 Jan 2011 13:36:50 +0100
xi <ctrl.alt.sup at free.fr> wrote:

> I send this message, that could be useful for the few people still using 
> matrox video out.
> 
> I recently faced a problem: all the video played with -vo xmga option 
> were black (blank screen, no image ; just the window's borders)
> Reading the docs, I figured out that there where options to pass to 
> /dev/mga_vid and the "blackie" option was the culpit for me (I don't 
> know what this option is used for).
> 
> So, if everything seems OK but you have a black screen using -vo xmga, 
> try this : echo "blackie=off" > /dev/mga_vid

Could you give a few more details about your setup? Like kernel version,
used mga_vid version, used player, dmesg output, etc?

			Attila Kinali
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