Mplayer and ati

I have a thinkpad with a ATI Technologies Inc M22 [Radeon Mobility M300] graphicscard. The card works fine, but when I try to play video in mplayer with the xv-driver I get this error:
It seems there is no Xvideo support for your video card available.
Run 'xvinfo' to verify its Xv support and read DOCS/HTML/en/video.html#xv!
See 'mplayer -vo help' for other (non-xv) video out drivers. Try -vo x11
Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device.
xvinfo gives me this:
[davalex@tuva Musikk]$ xvinfo
X-Video Extension version 2.2
screen #0
no adaptors present
I use the frglx-drivers from ati.
I hope someone can help me with this
EDIT:
fglrxinfo show this:
libGL error: failed to open DRM: Operation not permitted
libGL error: reverting to (slow) indirect rendering
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
OpenGL version string: 1.2 (1.5 Mesa 6.4.2)
So ill guess the drivers arent working right after all... What can be the problem?
-Alex

Still no luck. Ill post my xorg.conf so you guys can see if there is a problem with that file.
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Simple Layout"
Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "dbe" # Double buffer extension
SubSection "extmod"
Option "omit xfree86-dga" # don't initialise the DGA extension
EndSubSection
Load "freetype"
# Load "xtt"
Load "dri"
Load "glx"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard1"
Driver "kbd"
Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "rapidaccess"
Option "XkbLayout" "no"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "GlidePointPS/2" # GlidePoint PS/2
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "My Monitor"
HorizSync 31.0 - 83.0
VertRefresh 56.0 - 75.0
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option "DPMS" "true"
EndSection
Section "Device"
BusID "PCI:0:10:0"
VideoRam 256
Clocks 25.2 28.3
Identifier "Standard VGA"
Driver "vga"
VendorName "Unknown"
BoardName "Unknown"
EndSection
Section "Device"
VideoRam 65536
Identifier "My Video Card"
Driver "flgrx"
Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]"
Driver "fglrx"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen 1"
Device "My Video Card"
Monitor "My Monitor"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 8
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1400-1050 1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]"
Device "aticonfig-Device[0]"
Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection

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On the one hand, Apple users benefit from Apple taking on the responsibility of integrating everything together so there's minimum fuss. On the other hand, sometimes you have to wait for solutions that work, where a PC user has more options... I had trouble with Liquify using the latest ATI drivers (on my PC), so I just uninstalled them and installed a version they released 2 months ago that works…
Noel,
One can do similar stuff on the Mac too, provided you really, really know what you're doing. What's more, not only can you use .kext files from previous OS versions, but you can even hack them or roll your own. One notable case was the set of applefan.kext files provided by an outfit called macgeniuses to cool down the Power Mac MDD G4 for purposes of running a mutant, flashed graphics card they sold for it. One has to be superextra careful though, or you'll turn the machine into an extremely noisy air filter or you can literally fry the cpu and gpu in no time.

How to Setup LCD Monitor and ATI Rage LT Pro ? Thanks

I have already added the 109401-01 Patch to Solaris 8 (x86) , but I got
a problem , that LCD Monitor and ATI Rage LT Pro was wrong in kdmconfig,
Someone can help me how to config them? thanks

Thanks for your response.I cannot sure which drivers should be selected , I have tried the all item of ATI,LCD monitor size and resolution in kdmconfig , but it doesn't work well ,even more , I didn't see any item which shows ATI LT Pro. The system is ok, color-mapping is right ,I can see the right color (256 colors) ,but something wrong with the right block of Login Screen that was redundant on the center of normal screen. 1152x900 resolution ,which is the default resolution in Solaris.My LCD limitation is 1024x768,I don't know that might be a problem or not,could it be a problem?
Thanks.if you can send me a mail ,I can send the picture to you.
[email protected] , thanks again.

Brandnew 8-core MacPro and ATI Radeon X1900 xt

I had this quadcore MacPro with an ATI Radeon X1900 XT and now I am switching to a newer octo-core MacPro.
I managed to install the card into the computer case. But alas, i don't see anything on my screen...
System Profiler discovers the card but gives it an generic name "Display" with Vendor ATI and DeviceID 0x7249.
But no "displays" found attached to it, which is b.s.
Please please don't tell me i cannot use this graphics card in the octo-core MacPro?!

I am surprised .... I don't have (any ideas), so I don't know for sure
You know, that doesn't help or further things and puts out false ideas that there even might. Then I'll hear "but I read somewhere something."
Apple changed the firmware on 2008. That is well known and pretty obvious, and graphic cards have to follow suit.
Nvidia doesn't seem to know or follow ATI's path of using a "hybred" (for want of better term) EFD? ROM that works across EFI32 and EFI64. Been explained over and over, or if not explained, given as cause to why.
At least we have a few years before EFI128!
NVidia GeForce 7400 gfx card
Now that is very elusive.
The 7300GT works only in 2006-7 Mac Pro, which were dual processor / dual or quad-core, but all used EFI32; 667MHz FBDIMM; had 1333MHz front side bus; PCIe 1.0/1.1 (but not PCIe 2.0 that came out in 2008).
And with brand new 2009, DDR3, you graphic option is really between GTX 285 and ATI HD 4870 - forget the GT120 even as a viable option for most.

[SOLVED]mplayer and mplayer-plugin

I have been trying to install mplayer and mplayer-plugin for several days from several mirrors in the USA. this is the error message I keep receiving:
error: failed retrieving file 'smbclient-3.2.5-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz' from mirror.cs.vt.edu : File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
error: failed retrieving file 'mplayer-1.0rc2-8-i686.pkg.tar.gz' from mirror.cs.vt.edu : File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
warning: failed to retrieve some files from extra
error: failed to commit transaction (unexpected error)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
Anyone else having this issue?
THANKS!!!
Last edited by cphase (2008-12-16 22:31:16)

Update your pacman database (pacman -Sy) or really force it to update (pacman -Syy). The packages you are trying to download are not the latest versions

Mplayer and xine crash on startup

I got a problem...
I installed mplayer and xine via pacman and everytime I try to start it the application crashes. But it's not as if that's everything, the X server restarts itself, too, and I end up at the GDM login screen. That is really annoying since it doesn't allow me to play any videos or DVDs.
Has anyone heard about this problem before? Any suggestions?

EDIT: if you are not interested in a wrong statement, please read on to the next post, thx :-)
sarah31 wrote:Could it be that KDE needs to be recompiled against the new glibc? Have you contacted the maintainer of the KDE packages? Have you had the same problems with other X applications that are not KDE based?
to check this, i played with kde a little (starting some kde bins and checking)
kontact also fails to run
konqueror disapears without feedback while rightclicking or other actions
long list
tried to crash konqueror in gdb:
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 16384 (LWP 2437)]
0xb77d536d in free () from /opt/kde/lib/libkdecore.so.4
(gdb)
hä? not really much info ... strange...
trying kontact:
[New Thread 16384 (LWP 2445)]
Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Reading symbols from /lib/libm.so.6...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.6...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXxf86vm.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
ERROR: Communication problem with kontact, it probably crashed.
Program exited with code 0377.
(gdb)
ok, then i realized, that i need to run it with --nofork:
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 16384 (LWP 2499)]
0xb69317bc in memcpy () from /lib/libc.so.6
(gdb)
it IS a glibc trouble!
EDIT: it is NOT!
EDIT2: actually, it is, at least in a way ... memcpy() is from glibc but used in libpng intensively, so the trouble was in memcpy, but it was caused by libpng 1.2.6rc1

Apple and ATI aware of iMac freezing issue

Now they just need to figure out how to fix it.
Here is a post from today by one of the Blizzard mac techs on the Mac Support forum of the World of Warcraft forums:
There are at least two sides to customer support.
One is, identifying issues that need to be fixed. In this case (ATI
driver bug) that task is done. ATI and Apple are aware of the issue and
working on it, I confirmed that with them today.
Two is, finding a way to provide short term relief of the issue if at
all possible.
Since we can't make a driver update appear in seconds, bear with us if
we make suggestions that may in fact improve stability for you until a
more lasting fix is available.
"

wawalulu,
If you can wait a few weeks for Apple and ATI to sort out the graphics driver problems, that might be your best bet. With any new model it does take Apple a couple months to iron out the glitches so when this happens, you will have a pretty solid Mac.
I work supporting both Macs and PC's where the user base is in the thousands and I will tell you on the whole, Macs are definitely more trouble-free than PC's. However, I won't candy coat things like some of the posters on this forum. There WILL be issues that will crop up but usually Apple does the right thing and fixes them. Sending feedback and patience is the key. When the new Leopard OS (10.5) comes out this month, I guarantee there will be issues due to it's newness and lack of maturity. However, if Apple's past track record is any indication, it shouldn't have anywhere near the issues Windows Vista has. We won't even support Vista where I work because it's so troublesome!
BTW, my 20" late 2006 iMac I use at work has been rock solid. This is because it's a revised version of the original intel iMac Apple released so most of the bugs were worked out. The G5 tower I had before that was perfect as well as the G4 and G3 towers I used before that. All of these Macs were at least second revision of their respective model lines. If memory serves, all of them has some teething pains in their first revisions.
I have a new 20" aluminum iMac at home, breaking my cardinal rule to never buy the first revision of a new product and it does have the graphics freezing issue talked about in these threads but it's only happened twice. So, I knew full well what I was getting into and am patiently waiting for Apple to release an update and fix the issue. Why did it have to be so... darn... sexy?!
I'll end this post on the following note: I use Macs at home precisely because I don't want to spend time fixing things... because I do that all day at work! If there was a better computer and OS out there, I'd be using it!
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Mplayer and framebuffer

hello,
I was wondering why framebuffer support was taken off the mplayer package ?
I mean, on this last revision of the PKGBUILD (1.54), the following option
--disable-fbdev was added, and I was wondering why.
Thanks,
--lf
---- EDIT ----
I tried using makepkg myself, after removing the --disable-fbdev from the PKGBUILD,
and got into 2 problems :
1) wrong md5sum for one of the files (easy to fix)
2) problems during compilation. I get this error while trying to compile :
"In file included from vo_fbdev.c:21:
../osdep/kerneltwosix.h:4:31: linux/thread_info.h: No such file or directory
In file included from /usr/include/linux/list.h:1,
from ../osdep/kerneltwosix.h:5,
from vo_fbdev.c:21:
/usr/include/linux/err_kernel_only.h:1:2: #error Kernel only header included in userspace
make[1]: *** [vo_fbdev.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/abs/multimedia/mplayer/src/MPlayer-1.0pre5/libvo'
make: *** [libvo/libvo.a] Error 2
==> ERROR: Build Failed. Aborting..."
I'm still searching how to fix this.

There's also the "sdl" video output to try. And mplayer and mplayer2 seem to have slightly different behaviour for me. Out of curiosity, what framebuffer driver are you using?

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