Am 23.04.2012 20:26, schrieb Michael Sullivan: > On 04/23/12 11:05, Michael Mol wrote: >> 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. >>>>>>> [...] >>>> >>>> Which series video card are you using? (nVidia, ATI, Intel...) Which >>>> driver? >>>> [...] >>> >>> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82915G/GV/910GL >>> Integrated Graphics Controller (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
[...] >>> 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. >> x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel > > I was just poking around my /usr/portage/x11-drivers directory and I saw > that my x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel version 2.17.0-r3 was installed > yesterday and it thinks I should downgrade. I'm going to try > downgrading. I'll let you know if it works... > Or try the next higher: 2.18.0 Maybe the regression was already fixed.
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