On Thursday 25 Jul 2002 2:38 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:
> >>[ws] sorry, this color depth is not enough.
> >>.........................................................................
> >>.. .....................................................
> >
> >Well, near the beginning it says your X session is running with 8 bit
> > colour depth. That is not going to be enough for MPlayer, hence the
> > warning. Set your default colour depth to be at least 16 bit.
>
> How do I do reset colour depth at 16 bit or more (shouldn't it be 32 bit ?)
Either select it when running XFdrake, or else edit /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and
in the section headed
Section "Screen"
Set
DefaultColorDepth 16 (or 24 or 32)
Personally I prefer 16 bit since it works the video card and CPU less hard,
and it really is quite difficult to tell the difference.
>
> >Also, you are not running mplayer as root are you? I just wonder why it is
> >looking for /root/.mplayer etc instead of ~/.mplayer
>
> I set it all up and get it working as root then worry about users.
Well your strategy is not working since running as root is giving you these
error messages :)
derek
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