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["Ron Clarke" <ariadne AT earthlink.com.au>]

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

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