[MPlayer-users] "Couldn't open /dev/3dfx"

[Mark Zealey]

On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 01:46:19AM -0400, Geoff Stanbury wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi.  I apologize if this has come up before, either in the mailing list or in documentation.  If it has, however, I haven't been able to find it.
> 
> I've got a Voodoo3, and, even after building all of the modules (tdfx.o, tdfxfb.o, 3dfx.o) and other support that I could find references to, I still can't get MPlayer to play anything; MPlayer starts loading the file, and then exits with the message "Couldn't open /dev/3dfx".  It'll then stop displaying anything that I type into the xterm, but it'll respond appropriately.
> 
> Initially, my linux system (kernel 2.4.18) didn't have a /dev/3dfx, but after reading snippets of various docs, I created the device file:
> 
> geoff:/$ ls -l /dev/3dfx
> crw-r--r--    1 root     admin    120,   0 Apr 24 01:21 /dev/3dfx
> 
> But that didn't seem to change anything.
> 
> Does anybody know what exactly the problem is, and/or what the solution is?  Thanks a lot for your help.  

Never got the 3dfx driver to work so I wrote the tdfxfb driver, should work fine
for a voodoo 3, and it's very fast etc.. It uses mmap to the framebuffer device.

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