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Am 23.04.2012 20:26, schrieb Michael Sullivan: |
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> On 04/23/12 11:05, Michael Mol wrote: |
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>> On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Michael Sullivan <msulli1355@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>>> On 04/23/12 09:27, Michael Mol wrote: |
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>>>> On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Michael Sullivan <msulli1355@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>>>>> On 04/23/12 02:27, Florian Philipp wrote: |
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>>>>>> Am 23.04.2012 02:26, schrieb Michael Sullivan: |
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>>>>>>> First off, this has probably been discussed before, but I can't find it |
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>>>>>>> on google. I've spent the last several hours searching for the answer |
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>>>>>>> to this and I can't find it. |
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>>>>>>> |
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>>>>>> [...] |
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>>>>>>> So far I am |
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>>>>>>> very happy with 3.2.1-r2 on my PC except for one thing: xv doesn't seem |
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>>>>>>> to work anymore. On my old kernel, and indeed every kernel I've run on |
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>>>>>>> this computer since 2005 xv has worked. I haven't changed any hardware |
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>>>>>>> in this computer recently or ever. When I run mplayer I see this in the |
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>>>>>>> output: |
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>>>>>>> |
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>>>>>>> [VO_XV] It seems there is no Xvideo support for your video card available. |
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>>>>>>> [VO_XV] Run 'xvinfo' to verify its Xv support and read |
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>>>>>>> [VO_XV] DOCS/HTML/en/video.html#xv! |
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>>>>>>> [VO_XV] See 'mplayer -vo help' for other (non-xv) video out drivers. |
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>>>>>>> [VO_XV] Try -vo x11. |
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>>>>>>> Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device. |
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>>>>>>> |
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>>>>>>> |
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>>>>>>> I kept reading about xvinfo included in XFree86 distribution. I use |
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>>>>>>> xorg-x11. I found out that xvinfo can be emerged. I did so and it said |
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>>>>>>> this: |
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>>>>>>> |
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>>>>>>> X-Video Extension version 2.2 |
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>>>>>>> screen #0 |
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>>>>>>> no adaptors present |
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>>>>>>> |
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>>>>>>> |
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>>>>>>> which shouldn't be right because I've been using xv with mplayer for |
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>>>>>>> years. I assumed then that it was a module problem somewhere. I hadn't |
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>>>>>>> run a qlist -I -C x11-drivers/ recently so I did and remerged all the |
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>>>>>>> packages there. |
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>>>>>>> |
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[...] |
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>>>> |
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>>>> Which series video card are you using? (nVidia, ATI, Intel...) Which driver? |
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>>>> |
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[...] |
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>>> |
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>>> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82915G/GV/910GL |
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>>> Integrated Graphics Controller (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) |
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[...] |
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>>> Kernel modules: i915 |
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>> |
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>> Ok, so you're using an Intel graphics chipset, managed via the |
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>> kernel's i915 module. According to Wikipedia, the 82915G, GV and GL |
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>> models are circa 2004/2005, and so are very old. It's very possible |
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>> you've encountered a regression. I had something similar happen a few |
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>> years ago with my 845-based system. |
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>> |
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>> Unfortunately, I don't know where you should take this from here. |
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>> x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel |
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> |
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> I was just poking around my /usr/portage/x11-drivers directory and I saw |
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> that my x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel version 2.17.0-r3 was installed |
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> yesterday and it thinks I should downgrade. I'm going to try |
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> downgrading. I'll let you know if it works... |
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Or try the next higher: 2.18.0 |
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Maybe the regression was already fixed. |
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