Hey guys. I just re-compiled a new system from scratch for the first time using 2.6 instead of 2.4 and I've been very pleased so far. I have one problem though: when I was using 2.4 I was able to use mplayer to play video directly to the console via framebuffer (/dev/fb0) instead of svgalib, but when I do so with 2.6, while /dev/fb0 exists and while I have it working with bootsplash just fine, when I run mplayer on /dev/fb0, I crash the display and have to ssh into the machine from another computer. Even after killing the mplayer process, video remains non-functional. I tried shutting down the computer (init 0) from an ssh'd terminal, but coming back into the room a few minutes later revealed that the machine would not shut down and so I had to push the button manually (which means yucky filesystem scans...) Anybody have any ideas as to how I can get this to work? I suppose it's not a big deal, but I'd still like to get this working if I can. I'm also planning on giving XDirectFB a try one of these days, so hopefully I won't have the same problems... :( Thanks in advance.
James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
