[MPlayer-users] framebuffer problems

[SMuelas]

I am also in RH7.2. Just to give you a hint (perhaps is totally
unsuccessful on your computer) the big problem that I had was ... the
SOUND!!
Don't ask the guys of mplayer. They have done something great but they
don't like to go into "particular details".
I have solved all my problems using a sound driver that they say does
not work. Forget it and try this:

	mplayer -vfm 3 -ao sdl:esd yourChoice....

If you don't have SDL, get it. Install ESD or enlightment or any kind of
esound. You have everything needed in RH dist. Also, you could get
Ximian that is "finish" and stable from yesterday.
I have never been able to use framebuffer with success but I don't have
one of those wonderful graphics card. Nevertheless I assure you that the
quality that I get to see divX films is really outstanding, with no one
drop and extremely small difference with the original DVD. It is a
pleasure to see my films on TV using the video-output of my laptop.
Almost incredible. And what is also surprising is to see your CPU
working at the smaller rate thinkable. Good luck




On Tue, 2001-12-04 at 00:17, Mark Young wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html &
>  http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.96.html if you still have questions or problems]
> 
> Hi
> 
> Since upgrading to RH7.2 MPlayer no longer works where it worked fine on
> RH7.1 with all the same hardware. I've got a GeForce2 MX, and using the
> nVidia drivers on RH7.1 it was great, fine, no problems. But, since going to
> RH7.2 and using either the bundled or nVidia drivers all I can get fromM 
> Player is :
> fbdev: Can't open /dev/fb0: No such device
> Sorry, selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
> 
> Yes, /dev/fb0 does exist and I've tried it as root in case it was a 
> permissions thing :) I've installed it according to the docs (as far as I can 
> tell), with all the codecs where they should be so I don't think it's a codec
> thing. And I get this with all the file formats I try .... so I think it must 
> be a framebuffer thing.
> 
> I've looked all over the MPlayer site, the X11 site and the nVidia site and
> I've found nothing that has helped regarding getting the framebuffer working.
> (I did get OpenGL working while I was on, so it's not all hopeless).
> 
> Here are the relevant(?) sections from XF86Config-4 :
> Section "Module"
> #       Load  "GLcore"
>         Load  "dbe"
>         Load  "extmod"
>         Load "fbdevhw"
> #       Load "dri"
>         Load  "glx"
>         Load  "pex5"
>         Load  "record"
>         Load  "xie"
> EndSection
> Section "Device"
>         # no known options
>         Identifier   "NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX (generic)"
> #        Driver       "nv"
>         Driver       "nvidia"
>         VendorName   "NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX (generic)"
>         BoardName     "NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX (generic)"
>         #BusID
> EndSection
> 
> I'm using the very latest nVidia driver, the default Athlon kernel for RH7.2 
> and have gcc 2.95. I realise this may not strictly be an MPlayer problem - 
> but seeing as this is the only app that's complaining about the framebuffer I 
> thought it best to try here first.
> 
> Thanks for any help or advice you can give.
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
> 
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