[MPlayer-users] xv overlays stopped working... black screen only, no errors

[Juergen Botz]

Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> On Sunday, 15 July 2007 at 23:16, Juergen Botz wrote:
>> Suddenly xv overlays have stopped working for me... when I run
>> "mplayer -vo xv ..." the window just shows black, but mplayer
>> gives no errors (and I get the sound of what I'm playing).
>>[...] 
> Something must've changed on your system. Maybe some update?

I figured it out... radeonfb kernel module wasn't getting loaded
and apparently this is necessary for XVideo.  After manually
doing 'modprobe radeonfb' and restarting X, things are back to
normal.

Thanks,

:j