From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 11 5:24: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from studsboll.d2g.com (a63.flamman.student.liu.se [130.236.218.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0C9B37B400 for ; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 05:23:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from studsboll.realworld.nu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by studsboll.d2g.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g2BDNjJ33148; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 14:23:45 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from doktorn@realworld.nu) Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 14:23:45 +0100 From: Rickard Borgmäster To: Alexander Leidinger Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MPlayer Video output Message-Id: <20020311142345.3d5b1efd.doktorn@realworld.nu> In-Reply-To: <200203071239.g27CdjwD000934@Magelan.Leidinger.net> References: <20020306195809.0ac827c3.doktorn@realworld.nu> <200203071239.g27CdjwD000934@Magelan.Leidinger.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.2 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.5) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 7 Mar 2002 13:39:45 +0100 (CET) Alexander Leidinger hit the keyboard and punched: > On 6 Mär, Rickard =?x-unknown?Q?Borgm=E4ster?= wrote: > > > I just downloaded the file ATI-4.1.0.i386.tar.gz and untarred it in > > /usr > > > > http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gatos/ATI-4.1.0.i386.tar.gz > > > > Since then, I have xv enabled output on my old ATI 3D Rage Pro Card. > > Works flawlessly =) > > > > But as I understand this is compiled code, you need linux emulation > > for it to work. > > If this is a driver for XFree86-4, then you don't need the linux > emulation, they are designed to be OS independend so you are able to use > them on every OS with the same machine architecture. At least this is > how it is intended to be. If some does some nasty things in a driver, it > may get OS dependend, but then this is a "bug". Are you saying that the compiled binaries can be used on any computer regardless of operating system, just as long as X4 is used? Impessive... -- Rickard .--. .--. .----------------------------------------. | | | | .-. | Rickard Borgmäster | | | | |/ / | doktorn@sub.nu | .-^ | .--. | < | http://doktorn.sub.nu/ | ( o | ( () ) | |\ \ `----------------------------------------' `-----' `--' `--' `--' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message