<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 12:14 AM, George R Goffe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:grgoffe@yahoo.com">grgoffe@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<pre>Howdy,<br><br>I'm having trouble with my laptop. The mplayer folks say it's because Xv is not configured properly.<br><br>Here's the xvinfo output:<br><br>xvinfo<br>X-Video Extension version 2.2<br>screen #0<br>
no adaptors present (note the spelling error?)<br><br>I'm using an external monitor but I think it's connected to the system board. lspci | grep vga gives:<br>01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M56GL [Mobility FireGL V5250]<br>
<br>Does anyone know what's going on and what I need to do to resolve this problem please?<br></pre></td></tr></tbody></table></blockquote><div><br>Check dmesg. Xv requires the command processor to be set up on r5xx+ with requires that the radeon drm be loaded. Some distros require the linux-firmware package for the ucode required for the cp.<br>
<br>Alex<br><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;" valign="top">
<pre><br>Regards,<br><br>George...<br></pre><br><br>"It's not what you know that hurts you, It's what you know that ain't so." Wil Rogers</td></tr></tbody></table><br>
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