[Mplayer-users] Re: DGA trouble

Anders Rune Jensen root at gnulinux.dk
Sun Sep 2 15:51:56 CEST 2001


Well I just want to inform anyone who's buying a (new) notebook that
Tridents support is very poor. I couldn't get xv working and neither
TV-OUT. Im very disappointed over the Trident Xfree driver support. But
if you've read the news, maybe it's not all Xfree's fault.

On 02 Sep 2001 15:45:09 +0200, Felix von Leitner wrote:
> 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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