From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QEnZJ-0005Ko-Hm for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 19:05:05 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C2D811C08C; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 19:02:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72F221C08C for ; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 19:02:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyi11 with SMTP id 11so955785wyi.40 for ; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 12:02:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent :references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=cwEDp7Ie93ruV2jwRY7kRzVz0izHPRbW78wNyRDvrsc=; b=oDGl7pUWw7M5CTxMFcu9RBwXhczea7x5a5u9uR96uBhsTvCvRvFTzDGxUHfgcPy3f6 tzqm9yoDBZIUcPKqVNS3qi7ySfhDbOiRA7XW88WJ5xqqsKsRSGQPT/1yaC0BEPuQkLn7 3vuzysGCNU4M33OabylkCU95eZuePrqRdSnyA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=o/nBxgfLVztqQ1a9Q1b+gISbvu729NqK+eC6VBAFJGDtFfHIBPbUOL9+qvxXmr0pQC ZWKy4SYXdiHj28ZMEhXprTM8utolA+1lzCUkwaf4bDLRJ1h+ueXBSprQXRV57WXIlN8X 7CgmkpSrurYrNJqs8gxHINQp91O16JQ6sfuZw= Received: by 10.227.29.30 with SMTP id o30mr1145741wbc.185.1303844569442; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 12:02:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dell_xps.localnet (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id w12sm9284wby.24.2011.04.26.12.02.48 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 26 Apr 2011 12:02:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer directfb permissions? Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 20:03:02 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.37-gentoo-r4; KDE/4.4.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <20110426133404.GA7426@gaurahari> In-Reply-To: <20110426133404.GA7426@gaurahari> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2074502.er6AgLQcbk"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201104262003.20100.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 8faa9bc39188699dc09218bf45665782 --nextPart2074502.er6AgLQcbk Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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! > > > >=20 > > > > Obviously there's a permissions issue somewhere... > > >=20 > > > 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! > > >=20 > > > For other reasons though it might still be nice to know how to give a > > > user directfb permission. > > >=20 > > > :) > >=20 > > Just an idea. > >=20 > > Not sure if it uses svgalib - in which case setuid it to root before you > > fire it up as a plain user. > >=20 > > Alternatively, run strace as a plain user and see at what point it fails > > to access the files it needs. >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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 =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart2074502.er6AgLQcbk Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAk23FvcACgkQVTDTR3kpaLboXgCcD6fsidhhDZRcoOm+/n7TpO0g vVUAoLX840IlBCYMgFlg5sQRnNZur26R =S6ON -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2074502.er6AgLQcbk--