Re: Lenny - xvinfo: No Adaptors present..
On 2011-01-14 09:24 +0100, Chris Jones wrote:
> I'm in the last stages of migrating my (mostly legacy) stuff to a newer
> laptop and cannot get mplayer to work as well as I had hoped on debian
> lenny.
>
> On my previous system with an old ATI Mach64, I specified the XVideo
> output driver and was getting pretty decent results.
>
> On the new system, with a fairly current nvidia video card, and the
> default ‘nv’ free driver, only the sound appears to work when I stream
> TV news channels or play .flv videos.
The problem is that
a) fairly current hardware may generally not work very well with a
relatively old system (Lenny's kernel and the nv driver are from
mid-2008), and
b) the nv driver does not support the XVideo extension on GeForce 8 and
newer.
> Hoping that this might be a simple case of debian ’lenny’ being too old
> for my hardware and that I only needed to be patient and the problem
> would take care of itself, I proceeded to boot into debian ‘squeeze’,
> but unfortunately, I got the exact same results as on lenny: no video
> with ‘xv’, very choppy sound with ‘sdl’, and xvinfo outputs the same
> three messages as above.
Which video driver do you use? On Squeeze, nouveau is the default, and
it does support XVideo here:
,----
| % xvinfo
| X-Video Extension version 2.2
| screen #0
| Adaptor #0: "Nouveau GeForce 8/9 Textured Video"
| [...]
`----
And what's your graphics card? Use "lspci -k" to also show its kernel
drivers, if any.
Sven
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