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From: Nick Rout <nick@×××××××.nz>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What happened with -vo vesa in Mplayer?
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 21:47:51
Message-Id: 20060729094057.5b5f116e.nick@rout.co.nz
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] What happened with -vo vesa in Mplayer? by Richard Fish
1 On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 10:46:32 -0700
2 "Richard Fish" <bigfish@××××××××××.org> wrote:
3
4 > On 7/24/06, Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@×××××.de> wrote:
5 > > AFAIK, ggi is a separate driver. The vesa driver seems to be
6 > > totally ignored in the current ebuilds (at least the word doesn't
7 > > occour anywhere).
8 > >
9 > > Maybe file a bug ?
10 >
11 > I did a bit more checking on this, and you are right, ggi is
12 > definitely not the answer.
13 >
14 > The ebuilds let the mplayer configure script autodetect for various
15 > drivers. It also looks like mplayer changed the VESA driver for
16 > 1.0_pre8 [1] to depend upon the lrmi library and their own vesautils
17 > stuff. Previous (pre7) versions did not.
18 >
19 > The bad news is that while lrmi exists in the portage tree, there is
20 > no ebuild for vesautils.
21 > So for now if you want the vesa driver, you will have to stick with _pre7...
22 >
23 > -Richard
24
25
26 the vesa fdriver works on geexbox with _pre8
27
28 >
29 > [1] http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html
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