[MPlayer-users] libdha pci scan failure

[D Richard Felker III]

On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 03:19:44PM -0800, Jeffrey Malone wrote:
> Okay, this should be an interesting one, or a very stupid mistake on
> my part that I'm overlooking.
> 
> So I install gentoo on my dell inspiron 8600 laptop which has an ATI
> RV350 Mobility Radeon 9600 M10 graphics card.  I emerge the fglrx
> drivers and mplayer onto it (1.0pre4).  I can verify that hardware
> acceleration is indeed working, and mplayer itself is working.  Xv
> doesn't work properly on ATI cards (which is an evil nightmare, but I
> didn't get to pick my graphics card), so I've found out that I have a
> choice.  I can use the OpenGL video output driver, gl2, which is iffy
> at times and has lead to several hard system crashes in the past, or I
> can use the vidix driver.  Problem is, vidix isn't working.
> 
> Executing `mplayer -vo xvidix:radeon_vid.so something.avi` produces
> the standard output, and gets all set to play when it dies off with:
> 
> [radeon] Can't find chip
> vosub_vidix: Couldn't find working VIDIX driver

see if the same thing still happens when running as root... vidix has
some stupid bugs in it that make it senselessly need root even if
you're using svgalib_helper to get around that. someday i need to get
around to committing my patches that fix it. but the bug is definitely
in the pci bus scan, so it might be your problem!

rich