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Date:      Wed, 27 Feb 2002 12:47:03 +0100
From:      Willem van Engen <wvengen@stack.nl>
To:        "Mike Meyer" <mwm-dated-1015203102.21e367@mired.org>
Cc:        multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Mplayer with svgalib?
Message-ID:  <20020227124703.45616894.wvengen@stack.nl>
In-Reply-To: <15484.11677.690871.629877@guru.mired.org>
References:  <15484.11677.690871.629877@guru.mired.org>

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On Tue, 26 Feb 2002 18:51:41 -0600
"Mike Meyer" <mwm-dated-1015203102.21e367@mired.org> wrote:

> Has anyone managed to get mplayer working with svgalib? How about
> anything working with svgalib? It always seems to fail with "don't
> have a graphics capable console and can't get one". I checked the FAQ,
> and it doesn't work if I run the test utilities that the port doesn't
> install, nor does it work if I run them as root with the console owned
You need to have a free tty to run it. And it doesn't work here on my
laptop when using a ttyvX>ttyvc. So you probabely have to edit your
/etc/ttys, turn an 'on' into an 'off' and killall -1 init.

- Willem

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