[MPlayer-users] SVGAlib/VESA failing

[Dallas]

I'm running debian etch, 550 MHz Athlon.
A sample of my mplayer output and config file can
be found at

http://www.lafn.org/~aw585/mplayer.log.case3.txt

My /proc/pci:

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PCI devices found:
  Bus  0, device   0, function  0:
    Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8501 [Apollo MVP4] (rev 4).
      Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd8000000 [0xdbffffff].
  Bus  0, device   1, function  0:
    PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8501 [Apollo MVP4 AGP] (rev 0).
      Master Capable.  No bursts.  Min Gnt=12.
  Bus  0, device   7, function  0:
    ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 27).
  Bus  0, device   7, function  1:
    IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. Bus Master IDE (rev 6).
      Master Capable.  Latency=32.  
      I/O at 0xd000 [0xd00f].
  Bus  0, device   7, function  2:
    USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (rev 14).
      IRQ 11.
      Master Capable.  Latency=32.  
      I/O at 0xd400 [0xd41f].
  Bus  0, device   7, function  4:
    Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 32).
      IRQ 9.
  Bus  0, device   9, function  0:
    Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev 16).
      IRQ 10.
      Master Capable.  Latency=32.  Min Gnt=2.Max Lat=24.
      I/O at 0xdc00 [0xdcff].
  Bus  0, device   9, function  1:
    Communication controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev 16).
      IRQ 3.
      I/O at 0xe000 [0xe03f].
  Bus  0, device  10, function  0:
    Ethernet controller: Davicom Semiconductor, Inc. Ethernet 100/10 MBit (rev 32).
      IRQ 4.
      Master Capable.  Latency=32.  Min Gnt=20.Max Lat=40.
      I/O at 0xe400 [0xe47f].
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe1000000 [0xe100007f].
  Bus  1, device   0, function  0:
    VGA compatible controller: Trident Microsystems CyberBlade/i7 (rev 93).
      IRQ 11.
      Master Capable.  Latency=32.  
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xdd800000 [0xddffffff].
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xde000000 [0xde01ffff].
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xdd000000 [0xdd7fffff].

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Until about a few months ago,
I was running mplayer using svgalib for the output
with the setting 

vo=svga:4:sq
 
in /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf
and it was working just great in full console mode.
This was with 'chipset VESA' activated in /etc/vga/libvga.config.
The images were just as good as X provided.
The ':sq' seemed to make a big difference in quality.

Then it quit working, I suspect something after an
'apt-get update; apt-get upgrade' cycle.
Mplayer still works fine in X, and still works with svgalib
if I settle for non-VESA, VGA mode, which seems to have greatly
degraded video quality. (perhaps there are some tweaks that can
correct this, but I don't know what they'd be)
aa-lib works also.

Anyway, if there is any further information or actions I can
take to help correct this let me know,
any advice is appreciated.

Thank you much for any help.

Regards, Dallas E. Legan II / legan at acm.org / aw585 at lafn.org
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