On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Michael Sullivan <[email protected]> wrote: > On 04/23/12 09:27, Michael Mol wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Michael Sullivan <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> On 04/23/12 02:27, Florian Philipp wrote: >>>> Am 23.04.2012 02:26, schrieb Michael Sullivan: >>>>> First off, this has probably been discussed before, but I can't find it >>>>> on google. I've spent the last several hours searching for the answer >>>>> to this and I can't find it. >>>>> >>>> [...] >>>>> So far I am >>>>> very happy with 3.2.1-r2 on my PC except for one thing: xv doesn't seem >>>>> to work anymore. On my old kernel, and indeed every kernel I've run on >>>>> this computer since 2005 xv has worked. I haven't changed any hardware >>>>> in this computer recently or ever. When I run mplayer I see this in the >>>>> output: >>>>> >>>>> [VO_XV] It seems there is no Xvideo support for your video card available. >>>>> [VO_XV] Run 'xvinfo' to verify its Xv support and read >>>>> [VO_XV] DOCS/HTML/en/video.html#xv! >>>>> [VO_XV] See 'mplayer -vo help' for other (non-xv) video out drivers. >>>>> [VO_XV] Try -vo x11. >>>>> Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> I kept reading about xvinfo included in XFree86 distribution. I use >>>>> xorg-x11. I found out that xvinfo can be emerged. I did so and it said >>>>> this: >>>>> >>>>> X-Video Extension version 2.2 >>>>> screen #0 >>>>> no adaptors present >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> which shouldn't be right because I've been using xv with mplayer for >>>>> years. I assumed then that it was a module problem somewhere. I hadn't >>>>> run a qlist -I -C x11-drivers/ recently so I did and remerged all the >>>>> packages there. >>>>> >>>>> My video card info from lspci -v: >>>>> >>>>> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82915G/GV/910GL >>>>> Integrated Graphics Controller (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) >>>>> Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 5647 >>>> [...] >>>>> I can successfully modprobe the i915 module. Everything that can be is >>>>> built with the xv USE flag on. Is there anything else I >>>>> need to do to get my xv to work with mplayer? >>>>> >>>> >>>> Can you run mplayer with -vo gl? >>>> Do other video players have the same problem, e.g. VLC? >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Florian Philipp >>>> >>> >>> mplayer -vo gl runs fine, as long as I don't maximize it, like I usually >>> do. xine is the same. vlc seems to work well, but I prefer mplayer. >>> It's what I've always used, and would like it back if I can figure this >>> out... >> >> Which series video card are you using? (nVidia, ATI, Intel...) Which driver? >> >> > > Is this the information you want? If not, how do I find out the > information on the video card. I know almost nothing about hardware > except what software can tell me... > > 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82915G/GV/910GL > Integrated Graphics Controller (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) > Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 5647 > Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16 > Memory at ffa00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K] > I/O ports at ec00 [size=8] > Memory at c0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] > Memory at ffa80000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K] > Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] > Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2 > Kernel modules: i915
Ok, so you're using an Intel graphics chipset, managed via the kernel's i915 module. According to Wikipedia, the 82915G, GV and GL models are circa 2004/2005, and so are very old. It's very possible you've encountered a regression. I had something similar happen a few years ago with my 845-based system. Unfortunately, I don't know where you should take this from here. -- :wq
