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Right, then we need to do extra work. Assuming that your kernel supports it (I have no idea if it will) you should be able to enable it by adding the vga parameter to your kernel boot line. To do so you need to edit either /etc/lilo.conf of /boot/grub/menu.lst. I haven't used lilo for ages, and I don't know if RHEL uses grub or lilo as its bootloader. You will have to find yourself or ask around if no one here knows.
In the case of grub, a tipical entry in menu.lst looks like this:
Code:
title whatever
root (hd1,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz 3 root=/dev/sdb1 vga=791
This is just a guide, don't copy-paste it, just look at the red example and modify your menu.lst file adding the vga=xxx stuff to your kernel line.
Mode 791 is 1024x768. You can use "vga=ask" instead if that doesn't work, and grub will present you with a list of valid modes the next time you boot so you can choose. After this, save the file and reboot. If your kernel has been compiled with fb support you should see smaller (and hopefully nicer) text than usual while booting, that will be a sign that the framebuffer is on. If not, then probably you will need to compile your own kernel, with fb support.
Hello! If I understood correctly, you've got a working X server, correct? If this is the case, you should have the Xv Driver available while your X server is running. You can try opening a terminal while in your Desktop enviroment and trying mplayer -vo help. If Xv is not in the list, you could try installing the whole development section from the graphical frontend of yum (In Fedora 7 and Fedora 8 when PIRUT whas the package manager there was a whole Section named Development with X Development, KDE development, etc) and try to compile mplayer again. If not, you could always try Slackware... Version 13 comes with preinstalled MPlayer with support for almost every format there is (that includes mkv).
(1)to Refractor
$mplayer -vo help
fbdev Framebuffer Device
fbdev2 Framebuffer Device
cvidix console VIDIX
null Null video output
mpegpes MPEG-PES to DVB card
yuv4mpeg yuv4mpeg output for mjpegtools
tga Targa output
pnm PPM/PGM/PGMYUV file
md5sum md5sum of each frame
That is why I am trying to watch video using vidix.
(2)In RHEL devel of x11 are not available.Here is what I tried .
Code:
[root@zenlin57 installed_softwares]# rpm -ivh gtk2-devel-2.10.4-20.el5.i386.rpm
warning: gtk2-devel-2.10.4-20.el5.i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID a7048f8d
error: Failed dependencies:
atk-devel >= 1.9.0-1 is needed by gtk2-devel-2.10.4-20.el5.i386
cairo-devel >= 1.2.0-1 is needed by gtk2-devel-2.10.4-20.el5.i386
glib2-devel >= 2.12.0-1 is needed by gtk2-devel-2.10.4-20.el5.i386
libX11-devel is needed by gtk2-devel-2.10.4-20.el5.i386
libXcursor-devel is needed by gtk2-devel-2.10.4-20.el5.i386
libXext-devel is needed by gtk2-devel-2.10.4-20.el5.i386
libXfixes-devel is needed by gtk2-devel-2.10.4-20.el5.i386
libXi-devel is needed by gtk2-devel-2.10.4-20.el5.i386
libXinerama-devel is needed by gtk2-devel-2.10.4-20.el5.i386
libXrandr-devel is needed by gtk2-devel-2.10.4-20.el5.i386
pango-devel >= 1.13.0-1 is needed by gtk2-devel-2.10.4-20.el5.i386
[root@zenlin57 installed_softwares]# rpm -ivh libX11-devel-1.0.3-9.el5.i386.rpm
warning: libX11-devel-1.0.3-9.el5.i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID a7048f8d
error: Failed dependencies:
libXau-devel is needed by libX11-devel-1.0.3-9.el5.i386
libXdmcp-devel is needed by libX11-devel-1.0.3-9.el5.i386
xorg-x11-proto-devel >= 7.1-2 is needed by libX11-devel-1.0.3-9.el5.i386
[root@zenlin57 installed_softwares]# rpm -ivh libXau-debuginfo-1.0.1-3.1.i386.rpm
warning: libXau-debuginfo-1.0.1-3.1.i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 37017186
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
package libXau-debuginfo-1.0.1-3.1.i386 is already installed
[root@zenlin57 installed_softwares]# rpm -ivh mesa-libGL-devel-6.5.1-7.7.el5.i386.rpm
warning: mesa-libGL-devel-6.5.1-7.7.el5.i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 82fd17b2
error: Failed dependencies:
libX11-devel is needed by mesa-libGL-devel-6.5.1-7.7.el5.i386
[root@zenlin57 installed_softwares]# rpm -ivh xorg-x11-drv-openchrome-debuginfo-0.2.903-1.el5.i386.rpm
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
package xorg-x11-drv-openchrome-debuginfo-0.2.903-1.el5.i386 is already installed
[root@zenlin57 installed_softwares]# rpm -ivh xorg-x11-proto-devel-7.1-13.el5.i386.rpm
warning: xorg-x11-proto-devel-7.1-13.el5.i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 192a7d7d
error: Failed dependencies:
mesa-libGL-devel is needed by xorg-x11-proto-devel-7.1-13.el5.i386
[root@zenlin57 installed_softwares]#
Last edited by sumeet inani; 02-24-2010 at 05:01 AM.
to i92guboj
I added vga=ask in /boot/grub/menu.lst at the end of kernel line. As expected on reboot it gave the modes. To quote
Code:
video adapter:vesa vga
MOde columns
0 80x25
1 80x50
so on ...
I selected one of those by pressing number followed by enter & the boot messages came on screen with specified rows & columns. Still no luck I don't get anything starting with fb in /dev.
[root@zenlin57 abhiluv]# ls -la /dev | grep -i fb
[root@zenlin57 abhiluv]#
What else can I do ?
Last edited by sumeet inani; 02-24-2010 at 10:08 PM.
80x25, 80x50, etc. are still text modes. Graphics modes should look like 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768 and so on. So try to look for these in grub and choose one of them.
Maybe your kernel doesn't support fb at all (that shouldn't matter to grub though), or maybe it's your display which is somewhat limited. Do you have a /proc/config.gz file? If so, please, post the output for this command, which will show us your fb related config for your kernel:
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