Re: Round two mPlayer

[Neil Birchler <nbirchler@charter.net>]

are you turning on glx in your xorg.conf file?

On Oct 10, 2005, at 8:30 PM, Brian Keefe wrote:

> Thanks for the tip. I did a list in yum based on some of the names of
> the drivers on the page and I found a livna package for the Fire GL
> cards. Once I installed that, my video played just fine. THANKS!
>
> Now, the next problem. With this new driver, I noticed that my 3d
> support was a little slow. My son helped me test it with glxgears and
> found out that I was only getting about 100-200 fps. Also, when we did
> glxinfo we discovered the Direct Rendering was disabled. Is there an
> easy way to enable direct rendering? I am assuming from talking to my
> son and reading on the web that that is the reason my frame rate is so
> poor.
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
>
> On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 07:11 -0500, Neil Birchler wrote:
>
>> On Oct 10, 2005, at 4:10 AM, Brian Keefe wrote:
>>
>> *snip*
>>
>>> ATI Mobility Fire GL 7800
>>>
>> *end snip*
>>
>> Are you using ATI's binary driver or X.org's?
>> Some old installation instructions for the binary Fire GL driver:
>> http://xoomer.virgilio.it/flavio.stanchina/debian/fglrx- 
>> installer.html
>> If you don't have a problem with binary drivers, this one is faster
>> and more feature rich than the X.org supplied driver. Since you have
>> an actual Fire GL card, you may not have the stability problems some
>> people have had either.
>>
>> If you aren't using the binary drivers, here's the X.org info page
>> for their radeon driver:
>> http://www.x.org/X11R6.8.2/doc/radeon.4.html
>>
>> Looks like it provides the XV extension too, though. If you look
>> through your log file for X.org, do you see anything about the XV
>> extension being initialized? If mplayer is working with -vo x11, xv
>> is probably the culprit.
>>
>> Neil
>>
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