From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 9 05:52:35 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9C4116A9B3 for ; Mon, 9 Feb 2004 05:52:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from mss1001.glocalnet.net (access.glocalnet.com [213.163.128.129]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FA0D43D1F for ; Mon, 9 Feb 2004 05:52:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mback99@glocalnet.net) Received: from glocalnet.net ([217.209.164.74]) by mss1001.glocalnet.net (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id HSTL6I01.7PD; Mon, 9 Feb 2004 14:51:54 +0100 Message-ID: <402790BD.3010808@glocalnet.net> Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2004 14:53:01 +0100 From: "mikael backman" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031208 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dev Tugnait References: <402713E9.1060803@glocalnet.net> <20040209050509.GA5309@peacemaker.death.net> In-Reply-To: <20040209050509.GA5309@peacemaker.death.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svgalib ,vesa and mplayer X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2004 13:52:36 -0000 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 > >* mikael backman (mback99@glocalnet.net) wrote: > > >>Hi. >>I use FreeBSD 5.2 >> >>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. >> >>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. >> >>I must be doing something wrong but I don't know what. >>Any help would be appriciated. >> >>regard >>Mikael >> >> >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >>http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >>To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> >> > > > I do run mplayer as root, so thats not the problem. Other sugesstions? /Mikael