Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer directfb permissions?

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

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On Tuesday 26 April 2011 14:34:05 Indi wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:30:02AM +0200, Mick wrote:
> > On Monday 25 April 2011 23:38:04 Indi wrote:
> > > On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 05:50:01PM +0200, Indi wrote:
> > > > ...using the directfb for vo gives
> > > > sterling results, with the worst files playing happily in sync just
> > > > like I always dreamed -- but only as root!
> > > > 
> > > > Obviously there's a permissions issue somewhere...
> > > 
> > > Oh jeepers, I've made a silly error -- the reason videos were playing
> > > so well as root is that root had no .mplayer/config, :)
> > > Apparently I just needed to clean up my config file and now it works
> > > just fine again with x11 driver. Didn't realize defining a couple of
> > > audio and video filters would impact performance that much but
> > > apparently it really does, at least with avi and mkv files. Sorry for
> > > the noise!
> > > 
> > > For other reasons though it might still be nice to know how to give a
> > > user directfb permission.
> > > 
> > > :)
> > 
> > Just an idea.
> > 
> > Not sure if it uses svgalib - in which case setuid it to root before you
> > fire it up as a plain user.
> > 
> > Alternatively, run strace as a plain user and see at what point it fails
> > to access the files it needs.
> 
> Thanks for the suggestions.
> Was going to look into that just now but after updating the system
> (and runing revdep-rebuild and python updater and --depclean) the
> directfb driver doesn't display properly anymore for some reason.
> Everything else seems fine, and videos are playing in sync with the x11
> driver and all that. I have a feeling from what Ive read STFW that this
> is going to come down to my ATI Mobility 9600 chipset's incomplete kernel
> support and may not be practically solvable to the point of being worth
> pursuing.
> 
> I may pursue it anyway at some point in the future but for right
> now it's been moved to the back burner for a bit.

Are you running KMS in the kernel and have you emerged x11-drivers/radeon-
ucode (not sure if your card needs it) as per:

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml
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Regards,
Mick

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