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

[Ivan Kalvachev]

Hi,
 I have voodoo2 and in order to make a working /dev/3dfx
I have to download a Device3Dfx from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/glide
check the CVS.
The driver there is the only one working on 2.4.x kernels

Best Regards
  Ivan Kalvachev

Geoff Stanbury said:
> [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.
>
> --Geoff
>
> P.S.  Here's the entire output when I try opening something in
MPlayer:
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> geoff:~/movies$ mplayer swhigh.mov
>