Slackware 8 Hell

[Joel Jaeggli]

On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, cdowns wrote:

> ok, vlc -V sdl works ! a littel choppy but atleast it work.... this machine has
> a nvidia tnt2 in it and my laptop is an ati rage pro and is smooth as all hell,
> is there a way to take advantage of a 3d card such as the tnt2 ?

on my tnt2 card sdl is a bit choppier than xvideo. one thing I 'd ask in
relation is are you using the nvidia driver or the xf86 4.1 driver?

it kinda sounds like a a library issue with slackware 8.

> you have been a real help ! just wanted to thank you again.
>
> -D
>
> "Robert J. Hansen" wrote:
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> > > God and Savior ~! Im almost there....... i have it running on my laptop
> > > with slack 8 and was having a hell of a time on the workstation. still one
> > > error and here is the dump:
> >
> > I'm going out on a limb here, but here's my best guess:
> >
> > > vout error: no suitable Xvideo image input port
> > > module: unlocking module `xvideo'
> > > vpar error: can't open vout, aborting  <---------- get a seg fault right
> > > here..... any ideas on this one ?
> > > module: hiding unused plugin module `x11'
> > > module: hiding unused plugin module `xvideo'
> >
> > For whatever reason, you can't use an Xvideo output port.  Try telling VLC to
> > use SDL or X11 instead of Xvideo.
> >
> > (-V x11 or -V sdl)
> >
> > See if that helps.
> >
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