[MPlayer-users] need help

[Karsten Mueller]

Assuming you are running KDE:

press ALT+F2, enter "xhost +localhost", press enter, rerun mplayer
and RTFM ;)

Maybe you should have RTFM prior mailing to this list...


Technical Operations wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hello all, i really want to see what mplayer can do. I am using SuSE 8.0, 
> intel P3, ...etc. etc.
> 
> Mplayer compiled and installed fine, but when i try to run it it fails to 
> start and i get this error message. 
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> Xlib: connectoin to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: No protocol specified
> 
> vo: couldn't open the X11 display (:0.0)!
> MPlayer GUI requires X11!
> .
> .
> .
> Exiting... (End of File)
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> I did the ./configure --enable-gui    option, i never saw a complaint about 
> X11.
> I have the fonts installed, and the skin,...i have tried with -vo x11, -vo xv 
> , and without -vo altogether
> 
> please help!
> 
> Newb
> 
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with best regards
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Karsten Mueller
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RATIO Entwicklungen GmbH
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