[MPlayer-users] /dev/fb0: No such device

[Dominik Mierzejewski]

On Saturday, 21 June 2003, Aaron Voisine wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> I'm a longtime mplayer user on FreeBSD but I'm relatively new
> to Linux. Maybe someone can help me out.
> 
> I installed mplayer on RedHat 9 using the rpms from freshrpms.net
> I get the following error:
> 
> fbdev: Can't open /dev/fb0: No such device
> 
> I understand that I need to somehow setup the framebuffer or use
> an alternate video ouput, however the instructions I found for
> enabling framebuffer involve modifing lilo.conf and I'm using grub.

Looks like the default vo in these packages is fbdev.

> Also if I try to use -vo xv I get:
> 
> Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device.

Looks like the x11 driver for your gfx card doesn't support xv.

> Any clues? Can someone walk me through setting up mplayer on
> RedHat 9 or point me to the appropriate documentation? I can't
> be the only one having this problem can I?

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