svgalib ,vesa and mplayer

mikael backman mback99 at glocalnet.net
Mon Feb 9 05:52:36 PST 2004


Dev Tugnait wrote:

>Thats the message i get but mplayer then crashes with a bug, i dont really use it but i had to be root cuz it says svga Input/Output error as normal user
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>* mikael backman (mback99 at glocalnet.net) wrote:
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>>Hi.
>>I use FreeBSD 5.2
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>>I try to watch a movie with mplayer in the console using
>>svgalib for video. I have included "options VESA" in GENERIC
>>and compiled and installed the kernel.
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>>I get no error messages  when I run "mplayer -vo svga file.avi". It just 
>>says that pseudo terminal 9 is allocated for svgalib and then mplayer 
>>quitly aborts.And there is nothing displayed in terminal 9.
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>>I must be doing something wrong but I don't know what.
>>Any help would be appriciated.
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>>regard
>>Mikael
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I do run mplayer as root, so thats not the problem. Other sugesstions?

/Mikael




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