mplayer

[Harvey]

Anyone gotten mplayer to work with a nVidia card?

when I do xvinfo, I get.
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X-Video Extension version 2.2
screen #0
no adaptors present
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that can't be good

When I check the file in DOCS/ called VIDEOCARDS I see....

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- nVidia users sell their card.. or download the nVidia driver from
nVidia's website
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well... if you put it that way.

Guess I'll go get this driver, but then what do I do with it?

Has anyone does this before? Cyaz.

[rick420]

I wish I could get it to compile at all. I have a Geforce 2 GTS myself, and the nvidia drivers are properly installed. What distro are u using?

[Harvey]

I'm using SuSE7.1

I just went to get the drivers and read this readme. http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=linux_readme_install

The driver RPM's seem to have installed okay. (How can I be sure they really did)

I restarted X, but xvinfo still says nothing about card info.

I see in that read me it says to edit the XF86Config file...

Seems scary. Heh. It says to....

If you already have an XF86Config file working with a different driver
(such as the 'nv' driver), then all you need to do is find the relevant
Device section and replace the line:
Driver "nv"
with
Driver "nvidia"
In the Module section, make sure you have:
Load "glx"
You should also remove the following lines:

Load "dri"
Load "GLcore"

I'm not sure what I'm looking at in the XF86Config file though

I see two Device sections...


Section "Device"
Identifier "Primary-Card"
VendorName "---AUTO DETECTED---"
BoardName "---AUTO DETECTED---"
# Option "sw_cursor"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Generic VGA"
VendorName "Unknown"
BoardName "Unknown"
Chipset "generic"
EndSection

I take it the one talking about "Generic VGA" is suppsoed to be my Nvidia card?

Think that's right? Should I just replace that section with

Driver "nvidia"

like the readme says?

scary stuff. don't wanna break X!

[Harvey]

Found this link http://www.gentoo.org/doc/nvidia_tsg.html

I have never messed with my XF86Config file before... first time for everything huh.

Is this the kinda thing i want to do?

[Harvey]

More stuff for my own notes :) haha.
http://www.cyber.com.au/users/ashridah/nvidia_tsg.html

Hey, in XF86Config there is a SCREEN section, and a DEVICE section, I see stuff about Nvidia in both of them i these sample Config files... I take it Device is the card, what is screen? aren't those the monitor settings? why would Nvidia stuff be in there?
http://linux.tc3net.com/newlook/nv/NV_FAQ.html#Install

This looks good. http://www.evil3d.net/articles/linux/howto/nvidia/suse71/printer.php3

wait... this isn't it... http://12.2.43.225:8080/images/iowafair/harv-goat2.jpg

[ 30 July 2001: Message edited by: Harvey ]