From owner-freebsd-multimedia Tue Feb 26 22:44:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mail.brfmasthugget.se (mail.thalamus.nu [212.31.160.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2B5737B400 for ; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 22:44:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from lockdown.nodomain [212.31.164.147] by mail.brfmasthugget.se (SMTPD32-7.05) id A03639F021A; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 07:44:06 +0100 Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 07:44:06 +0100 From: Martin Faxér To: "Mike Meyer" Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Mplayer with svgalib? Message-Id: <20020227074406.2aabd607.gmh003532@brfmasthugget.se> In-Reply-To: <15484.11677.690871.629877@guru.mired.org> References: <15484.11677.690871.629877@guru.mired.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386--freebsd5.0) X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 26 Feb 2002 18:51:41 -0600 "Mike Meyer" wrote: > Has anyone managed to get mplayer working with svgalib? How about > anything working with svgalib? It always seems to fail with "don't > have a graphics capable console and can't get one". I checked the FAQ, > and it doesn't work if I run the test utilities that the port doesn't > install, nor does it work if I run them as root with the console owned > by root. SVGALib has worked fine for me on both -STABLE and -CURRENT, utilizing an S3 Savage4 graphics chipset on both -STABLE and -CURRENT, and an NVIDIA GeForce2 MX graphics chipset on -CURRENT. I guess some suggestions would be to make sure that your securelevel isn't set to anything higher than -1 and that you've got SVGALib set up correctly in /usr/local/etc/vga/libvga.config. > > I get the feeling there's a kernel option required for this that I've > not got set. As far as I know you don't need to set any special kernel options to get it running... > > FWIW, mplayer works fine under X. But I need it for a system that I'd > rather not install X on... > > Thanx, > -- > Mike Meyer http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ > Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message