[MPlayer-users] Re: /dev/fb0: No such device

[Dominik Mierzejewski]

On Sunday, 22 June 2003, Aaron Voisine wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> I've figured it out the problem... no thanks to
> at least one rude person on this list. And, no it
> wasn't covered in the manual. Maybe someone should
> add it so other less experienced users aren't torn
> apart by list members who aparrently haven't read
> the manual themselves.
> 
> It appears that when installing via binary rpm,

Which rpm?

> XFree86-devel is an unlisted package dependency.

Huh? MPlayer binary doesn't require any -devel package to run.

> In addition when compiling mplayer manually, when
> this package is missing, configure fails to find
> xv and does not list any explination in
> configure.log

What does compiling mplayer have to do with binary packages?

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