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  • From: "Ron Clarke" <ariadne AT earthlink.com.au>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] MPlayer 1.0pre7try2 - success !
  • Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 12:50:44 +1000

Hi Folks,

On Sat, 25 Feb 2006 16:53:02 -0800, David Moberg wrote:

> Ron Clarke wrote:

>> NOTE: editing the /user/.mplayer/config to include vo=vesa meant that
>> trying
>> to run that configuration under X resulted in a blank screen and complete
>> keyboard lock-up that required a hard re-boot, so don't try this at home,
>> folks.

> You can put multiple drivers in the vo argument and mplayer will try
> one at a time until it finds one that works. So 'vo=x11,vesa,svga'
> will try all three in that order. If vesa works and you are not in X,
> it will use that instead of svga. But if you are in X, mplayer will use
> X and your screen and keyboard will not lock up.

That sounds like the way to go. :)

>> And my video card (Diamond Stealth 2 MB) is vesa 1.2 compliant.

> Interesting. The manpage says that vesa is a 'Very general output
> driver that should work on any VESA VBE 2.0 compatible card.'
> It did not work on my laptop's i810-compatible card, which is
> supposedly vesa 2.

I have found that this particular graphics card is very easy for most
applications to drive as vesa, in Linux and DOS.


Regards,
Ron

-- This mail was written by a user of the Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/



  • Re: [BL] MPlayer 1.0pre7try2 - success !, Ron Clarke, 02/25/2006

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