[MPlayer-users] VESA Not Working on Kernels > 2.6.15.5

[Obecalp]

> Hi,
> 
> On Sunday 27 August 2006 02:42, Obecalp wrote:
> > I've noticed that I can't get "-vo vesa" to work on kernels 
> newer than 
> > 2.6.15.5.  The behavior is the same with 1.0pre7try2 & 1.0pre8.
> > ...
> > Is this possibly a kernel issue, mplayer bug or maybe just 
> a problem 
> > on my machine's hardware?  It's a Toshiba Libretto 100CT 
> with NeoMagic 
> > MagicGraph 128XD with VESA VGA graphics kernel support.
> 
> Have you tried using the "neofb" framebuffer driver and 
> 'mplayer -vo fbdev'? 
> It used to be a bit flaky a few years back but it seems to 
> work just fine these days on my NeoMagic 128XD based ThinkPad 
> 240 with 2.6.17.8 kernel. 
> There's a special kernel command-line option, "libretto", 
> that you might need to use if it doesn't recognise the 
> 800x480 display. The text scrolling's a bit slow but that can 
> be improved by using 'fbset -vyres <something big>' to use 
> hardware panning on a big virtual screen.
> 
> (Alternatively, if you have X, you could use XVideo to have 
> the chip convert from YUV to RGB and scale to fit the screen. 
> That seems to work quite well.)
> 
> Stephen

Hi Stephen,

I have tried using the neofb kernel framebuffer support but it
is very slow compared to VESA.  The machine is very slow too (150Mhz)
Pentium MMX, so every bit of speed that I can squeeze out of it is 
important.

Thanks,

Patrick.