[MPlayer-users] Some bugs occured at my PC

[Nick Kurshev]

Hello, GАbor!

On Sun, 23 Dec 2001 16:23:49 +0100 you wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 05:46:31PM +0300, Nick Kurshev wrote:
> > > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > > On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 06:33:40PM +0100, G?bor L?n?rt wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Uhhh. Well it's quite dangerous thing to do this, beleive me :)
> > > 
> > > How about disallow using VESA if user is in X? Checking $DISPLAY or
> > > something like that?
> > Indeed on some BIOSes using VESA over X11 is safety thing. So it depends
> > on BIOS imlementation only. Thus we shouldn't check $DISPLAY anyway.
> 
> Right, but what is the point of using vo vesa over X11? If you use X,
> you should use Xv, X11, DGA (depending of your driver/card abilities).
> Imho DGA should be as fast as VESA. You may want to use vo vesa on console
Yes speed of DGA == VESA.
> only. I see only one benefit of vesa over other drivers: dual head capabilites
> like it's written in the dox. But I think whatever that fact you want to use
Not only - also TVout
> vesa you shouldn't use it under X11. Since (imho) we can't check if it's
Agree - DGA is native X11 driver
> safe to use vo vesa under X11 we should disable it. Or at least we should
No - simply it's funny ;)
> use a switch to enable vesa under X11. If the user find this stable, (s)he
> can push to switch into the config file. Or something similar ...
This for Arpi's opinion but not for me.
> 
> - Gabor
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Best regards! Nick