[MPlayer-users] Video card confusion

[Arwed von Merkatz]

On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 12:43:36PM -0400, Bruce Miller wrote:
> All attempts to run MPlayer abort with the error "Couldn't open /dev/3dfx". 
> The full 69 line terminal output is reproduced below. (For this sample, I was 
> running from a root session after having had the same failure in a regular 
> user account) The only cases of this error message found in Google involved a 
> user who actually had a 3dfx card. I do not; I have an nVidia Geforce4 MX440 
> with nVidia's binary driver version 4363. As in the earlier case reported on 
> Google, after mplayer aborts, the xterm does not display typed text although 
> the "invisible" commands are executed.
> 
> I would welcome advice on how to get mplayer to recognize the correct display 
> adapter.

try running mplayer with '-vo xv' or '-vo sdl'

You can set the device mplayer should use by default in
/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf with:
vo=xv 

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