[Wolves] Mplayer

[Old Dan]

Rachael Baylis wrote:
> Thanks for the comments... My current status:
> 
> 1) The command "mplayer -vo x11" works just fine with all but one of the
> files I tried it on, so obviously that is ok.
> 
> 2) "mplayer -vo xvidix" *doesn't* work; I have the mplayer-vidix rpm but
> it's not installed, because it requires a driver to be installed with 
> it. Which
> is where my original problem came in, since none of the drivers listed were
> for my card. For the record, the options were:
> 
> 3) I don't have an "XF86Config-4" file that I can find; I do have one 
> called
> "XF86Config", though, and the instruction 'Load "extmod"' is present and
> uncommented in that.
> 
> 4) It appears - my previous comments notwithstanding - that the standard
> (Tim Roberts) driver will not work with my video card. His site points to
> http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=184#ProSavageDDR
> as the offical VIA driver source, but when I download the packages, they
> appear to contain nothing but the README file, which isn't really all that
> helpful.
> 
> Google isn't turning up any possible alternative sources of the driver; 
> does
> anyone have any advice?

Well you could try...

http://probo.probo.com/pipermail/savage40/2003-July/000038.html

There's a link on there which points to a source .zip, which has a 
readme which seems to include instructions.

HTH
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Dan