[Mplayer-users] Re: DGA trouble

[Felix von Leitner]

Thus spake Anssi Saari (as at sci.fi):
> > For the record, my expensive notebook has an nvidia chipset (geforce
> > 2go), which I bought almost exclusively to be able to watch movies with
> > it using mplayer, because I know that the rivafb and X drivers work just
> > fine with regular geforce boards.  Well, on 2go rivafb does not detect
> > the hardware and the binary X driver does have a working xv extension.
> > Which currently means I'm limited to DGA as output driver.
> Uh, how does this follow?

Well, modern expensive notebooks have very high resolution displays,
like 1400x1048 or 1600x1200, so using -vo x11 yields a very small
window, so it's out.

> Is the binary X driver so evil you can't use it, even for xv?

xv works with the nvidia driver, just not on the 2go.

> What about the nv driver from XFree86 4.1.0, it has xv that works at
> least with my GF2MX?

No 2go support :-(

Felix

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