mplayer borked

moger · 06-05-2004, 01:26 AM

After I upgraded to X.org and recompiled my kernel (unrelated), the mozilla mplayer plugin doesn't play movies, and when I play mplayer from command line, my screen gets all blurry and it freezes. I tried reinstalling the mplayer binary with removepkg and installpkg...No luck. This is the 2nd odd problem I have had when going to X.org. Maybe should I try installing mplayer from source? And BTW, I also reinstalled my NVIDIA drivers.

Astro · 06-08-2004, 02:37 PM

It's possible it's a problem with X.org.... it really messed up my laptop and I am a little worried to try using it again till they iron it out.

Neoslak · 06-08-2004, 09:07 PM

If you are running -current you may need to recompile MPlayer from source if the version you have installed is dependent on libcurl. From the ChangeLog:

n/curl-7.12.0-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to curl-7.12.0. This uses a new
major shared library version number (.so.3), so all libcurl linked
programs will need to be recompiled.

Chuck

Frank_Drebin · 06-08-2004, 09:21 PM

Xfree 4.4 is available on the Slackware ftp site under the unsupported tab.

ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/dist.../XFree86-4.4.0

download the packages, just do

removepkg x11

go to the download directory and type

installpkg xfree*