From owner-freebsd-multimedia Wed Feb 27 3:47:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from atlantis.homeip.net (a30032.upc-a.chello.nl [62.163.30.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6F0A437B423 for ; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 03:47:10 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 88368 invoked from network); 27 Feb 2002 11:47:04 -0000 Received: from jeremy.ourhome.nl (192.168.1.4) by atlantis.ourhome.nl with SMTP; 27 Feb 2002 11:47:04 -0000 Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 12:47:03 +0100 From: Willem van Engen To: "Mike Meyer" Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mplayer with svgalib? Message-Id: <20020227124703.45616894.wvengen@stack.nl> In-Reply-To: <15484.11677.690871.629877@guru.mired.org> References: <15484.11677.690871.629877@guru.mired.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.2 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386--freebsd4.5) 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 You need to have a free tty to run it. And it doesn't work here on my laptop when using a ttyvX>ttyvc. So you probabely have to edit your /etc/ttys, turn an 'on' into an 'off' and killall -1 init. - Willem To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message