[MPlayer-users] VESA stopped working with Radeon.
Dominik Mierzejewski
dominik at rangers.eu.org
Wed Jun 25 13:09:17 CEST 2003
On Wednesday, 25 June 2003, Dan wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> TJ wrote:
>
> <snipped>
>
> >I'm becoming desperate, having lost TV-out totally on Linux :( It's so
> >frustrating to boot to Windows, and I have only about 10% of the HDD
> >dedicated to Win so I can't even keep a lot of video files there, either.
>
> <snipped>
>
> There are a number of alternatives for getting tv-out working still.
> While some of them bite, here they are anyway:
[...]
> In conclusion, there are plently of alternatives for when the vesa
> driver doesn't work.
> Personally I use the DirectFB driver. It _seems_ to be faster than the
> vesa driver to me. And it 'just works' - as long as you don't use a
> version of DirectFB which is incompatible.
>
> Hope this helps someone!
Now if someone could supply direct links to maillist archives and convert
this to HTML (or XML) to put into FAQ, it would get them a lot of good
karma. :)
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