On Tuesday 26 April 2011 14:34:05 Indi wrote: > On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:30:02AM +0200, Mick wrote: > > On Monday 25 April 2011 23:38:04 Indi wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 05:50:01PM +0200, Indi wrote: > > > > ...using the directfb for vo gives > > > > sterling results, with the worst files playing happily in sync just > > > > like I always dreamed -- but only as root! > > > > > > > > Obviously there's a permissions issue somewhere... > > > > > > Oh jeepers, I've made a silly error -- the reason videos were playing > > > so well as root is that root had no .mplayer/config, :) > > > Apparently I just needed to clean up my config file and now it works > > > just fine again with x11 driver. Didn't realize defining a couple of > > > audio and video filters would impact performance that much but > > > apparently it really does, at least with avi and mkv files. Sorry for > > > the noise! > > > > > > For other reasons though it might still be nice to know how to give a > > > user directfb permission. > > > > > > :) > > > > Just an idea. > > > > Not sure if it uses svgalib - in which case setuid it to root before you > > fire it up as a plain user. > > > > Alternatively, run strace as a plain user and see at what point it fails > > to access the files it needs. > > Thanks for the suggestions. > Was going to look into that just now but after updating the system > (and runing revdep-rebuild and python updater and --depclean) the > directfb driver doesn't display properly anymore for some reason. > Everything else seems fine, and videos are playing in sync with the x11 > driver and all that. I have a feeling from what Ive read STFW that this > is going to come down to my ATI Mobility 9600 chipset's incomplete kernel > support and may not be practically solvable to the point of being worth > pursuing. > > I may pursue it anyway at some point in the future but for right > now it's been moved to the back burner for a bit.
Are you running KMS in the kernel and have you emerged x11-drivers/radeon- ucode (not sure if your card needs it) as per: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml -- Regards, Mick
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