On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 10:32:46PM +0530, Subash wrote:

>compiled and running mplayer (cvs 20011209 on pIII 500, 128 ram, intel
>i740 agp card with 8mb ram). couple of problems:
>1)./configure detects and supports Xv, but -vo xv gives "Xv not
>supported by this X11 version/driver". Xv support i guess is card/driver
>dependent. (xvinfo gives X-video Extension version 2.2; screen #0; no
>adapters present) 

What version of XFree ? On my i810 xv driver works flawlessly. I have XFree
4.1 on my machine.

>-vo x11 gives only 388 x 280 display, not full screen

x11 driver won't give u full screen.

>2)-vo svga or -vo vesa gives full screen play when used as root. As
>normal user, svga returns "svgalib: cannot get I/O permissions" and vesa
>returns "open /dev/mem: Permission denied"
>
>now, how do i get svga/vesa to work under normal user mode? thanks and

Both these drivers require mplayer to be run as root. 

Do a chmod +s /usr/local/bin/mplayer and than try.

Peace

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