Re: [gentoo-user] Freevo/Mplayer/Nvidia/X help please!
On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 10:13, Murray Shields wrote: > Hi all, > > I recently replaced a RH9 and older verion of Freevo with a Gentoo build > and the latest Freevo (with absolutely everything installed via emerge). > Everything was compiled, so everything is up-to-date. > > The hardware is identical, and primarily consists of a Celeron 1.1, > 256Mb RAM and a Nvidia GeForce 440MX with 64Mb RAM. I should also note > that Freevo is started from the command line, not from within X itself. > Whilst it was out of date, Freevo worked perfectly before the reload. > > Freevo will now run quite happliy boot and play MP3's and image > slideshows, but when I try to view a video (any video, any codec) I get > a black screen for several seconds then get dumped back to the Freevo > menu. If I use mplayer from the command line it works fine and plays the > specified movie file (the same file that fails from within Freevo). > > When I exit Freevo I see messages indicating that errors have been > placed in the mplayer logs, as follows: > > mplayer_stdout.log looks good until the line: > "vo: x11 uninit called but x11 not inited.." > and then it exits. > > mplayer_stderr.log has this: > "can't open '/root/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory." > "can't open input config '/root/.mplayer/input.conf': No such file or > directory." > "vo: couldn't open the X11 display ()!" > "Error opening/initialising the selected video_out (-vo) device." > > If I change Freevo to use "x11" instead of "fbdev" as its display mode, > I get an additonal Freevo error saying: > > "Warning: display is set to x11, but the environment has no DISPLAY set. > Setting display to fbdev." > > mplayer_stderr.log no longer has the lines complaining about the > video_out device. > > Note that XFree86 is installed, as is the nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx. > KDE and Gnome are NOT installed. I believe the Nvidia drivers are > installed correctly (I get the Nvidia logo when I do a "startx", which > runs just fine). Running Freevo from inside X does not fix the problem. > > I am probably missing something simple, but stuffed if I know what it > is. Any help would be appreciated. Sounds like you're running it as root. Try as a regular user. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
[gentoo-user] Freevo/Mplayer/Nvidia/X help please!
Hi all, I recently replaced a RH9 and older verion of Freevo with a Gentoo build and the latest Freevo (with absolutely everything installed via emerge). Everything was compiled, so everything is up-to-date. The hardware is identical, and primarily consists of a Celeron 1.1, 256Mb RAM and a Nvidia GeForce 440MX with 64Mb RAM. I should also note that Freevo is started from the command line, not from within X itself. Whilst it was out of date, Freevo worked perfectly before the reload. Freevo will now run quite happliy boot and play MP3's and image slideshows, but when I try to view a video (any video, any codec) I get a black screen for several seconds then get dumped back to the Freevo menu. If I use mplayer from the command line it works fine and plays the specified movie file (the same file that fails from within Freevo). When I exit Freevo I see messages indicating that errors have been placed in the mplayer logs, as follows: mplayer_stdout.log looks good until the line: "vo: x11 uninit called but x11 not inited.." and then it exits. mplayer_stderr.log has this: "can't open '/root/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory." "can't open input config '/root/.mplayer/input.conf': No such file or directory." "vo: couldn't open the X11 display ()!" "Error opening/initialising the selected video_out (-vo) device." If I change Freevo to use "x11" instead of "fbdev" as its display mode, I get an additonal Freevo error saying: "Warning: display is set to x11, but the environment has no DISPLAY set. Setting display to fbdev." mplayer_stderr.log no longer has the lines complaining about the video_out device. Note that XFree86 is installed, as is the nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx. KDE and Gnome are NOT installed. I believe the Nvidia drivers are installed correctly (I get the Nvidia logo when I do a "startx", which runs just fine). Running Freevo from inside X does not fix the problem. I am probably missing something simple, but stuffed if I know what it is. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Murray. --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 18/11/2003 Tested on: 20/11/2003 1:13:09 AM avast! is copyright (c) 2000-2003 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
