[MPlayer-users] VESA stopped working with Radeon.

[Alex Sisson]

 --- Timo Jyrinki <timo.jyrinki at hut.fi> wrote: >
[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read
> DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > In conclusion, there are plently of alternatives
> for when the vesa
> > driver doesn't work.
> 
> Unfortunately afaik those alternatives do not work
> with newer Radeons.
> I'm using Radeon 8500 (R200). Ati.2-drivers and
> atitvout don't work,
> which also counts the "tricking your radeon into
> leaving..." out.
> 
> DirectFB could work (R200/R300, too?), but it
> definitely wouldn't work
> together with ATI's binary (beta) drivers for
> XFree86 4.3.0. This might
> change with the upcoming release from ATI. I need
> the binary drivers for
> performance :(
> 
> XDirectFB doesn't allow me running the ordinary
> accelerated X-server at
> the same time so that it'd be easy to quit mplayer
> do something else.
> 
> However, I may point out the one option I'm
> currently using - a bootable
> CD with Movix². Movix uses mplayer, but since it
> uses Slackware 8.0 with
> an earlier glibc, it drives the TV-out just nicely
> in VESA mode. It's
> not too frustrating to boot to watch a whole movie.
> 
> -TJ

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