[MPlayer-users] Video card confusion

[Bruce Miller]

Thanks for the advice. It worked.

Bruce

On October 7, 2003 13:18, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
>
> 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