mplayer: vidix doesnt recognize ATI Radeon 8500LE
 

I installed and compiled the sources for MPlayer-0.92 passing --disable-divx4linux to the ./configure script. Having an ATI Radeon 8500LE, I would like to use its TV-out support and the mplayer docs say that vidix is the best choice for this. Setting the proper suid bits for the mplayer binary, I run "mplayer -vo xvidix <filename>" and get this in the video section of the verbose output:

No vidix driver name provided, probing available ones!
vo: X11 running at 1280x1024 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0.0" => local display)
[mga] No supported cards found
[mga] No supported cards found
vosub_vidix: Couldn't find working VIDIX driver
Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device.

Im running Slack9.1 and therefore XFree86 ver 4.3.0.

Thanks for any tips or solutions.

Here is mplayer's config.mak:

# -------- Generated by configure -----------

LANG = C
TARGET_OS = Linux
DESTDIR =
prefix = $(DESTDIR)/usr/local
BINDIR = $(DESTDIR)/usr/local/bin
DATADIR = $(DESTDIR)/usr/local/share/mplayer
MANDIR = $(DESTDIR)/usr/local/man
CONFDIR = $(DESTDIR)/usr/local/etc/mplayer
LIBDIR = $(DESTDIR)/usr/local/lib
#AR = ar
CC = gcc
AWK = gawk
RANLIB = ranlib
INSTALL = install
# OPTFLAGS = -O4 -march=pentium4 -mcpu=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math
OPTFLAGS = -O4 -march=pentium4 -mcpu=pentium4 -pipe -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer -D_REENTRANT -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
EXTRA_INC =
STRIPBINARIES = yes



STREAMING = yes
STREAMING_LIVE_DOT_COM = no
STREAMING_LIB = -lnsl
VIDIX = yes
PP_LIB = postproc/libpostproc.a
SHARED_PP = no
CONFIG_RISKY = yes
LIBMENU = no
I18NLIBS =

OPENDIVX = no

UNRARLIB = yes

PNG = yes
JPEG = yes
GIF = yes

EXTRA_LIB =
Z_LIB = -lz
HAVE_MLIB = no
WIN32_LIB =
STATIC_LIB =

X11_INC = -I/usr/X11/include
X11DIR = -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lXext -lX11 -lnsl

# for libavcodec:
SRC_PATH=.

# video output
X_LIB = -lGL -lXxf86dga -lXv -lXxf86vm -lXinerama -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lXext -lX11 -lnsl -lmad -lnsl
GGI_LIB =
MLIB_LIB =
MLIB_INC =
DXR2_INC =
DVB_INC =
PNG_LIB = -lpng -lz
JPEG_LIB = -ljpeg
GIF_LIB = -lungif
SDL_LIB = -L/usr/lib -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib -lSDL -lpthread
SVGA_LIB = -lvgagl -lvga -lm
AA_LIB =

# audio output
ALSA_LIB = -lasound -ldl -lpthread
NAS_LIB =
ARTS_LIB =
ARTS_INC =
ESD_LIB =
ESD_INC =
SGIAUDIO_LIB =

# input/demuxer/codecs
TERMCAP_LIB = -ltermcap
LIRC_LIB =
CSS_USE = no
CSS_LIB = -Llibmpdvdkit2 -lmpdvdkit
DVDKIT = no
DVDKIT2 = yes
DVDKIT_SHARED = no
SDL_INC = -I/usr/include/SDL -D_REENTRANT
W32_DEP = loader/libloader.a
W32_LIB = loader/libloader.a
DS_DEP = loader/dshow/libDS_Filter.a loader/dmo/libDMO_Filter.a
DS_LIB = loader/dshow/libDS_Filter.a loader/dmo/libDMO_Filter.a
AV_DEP = libavcodec/libavcodec.a
AV_LIB = libavcodec/libavcodec.a
FAME = no
FAME_LIB =
MP1E_DEP =
MP1E_LIB =
ARCH_LIB = -lpthread -ldl -rdynamic
XVID = no
XVID_LIB =
DECORE_LIB =
MENCODER = yes
ENCORE_LIB =
DIRECTFB_INC =
DIRECTFB_LIB =
CDPARANOIA_INC =
CDPARANOIA_LIB =
FREETYPE_INC = -I/usr/include/freetype2
FREETYPE_LIB = -lfreetype -lz
FRIBIDI_INC =
FRIBIDI_LIB =
LIBLZO_LIB=
MAD_LIB = -lmad
VORBIS_LIB = -lvorbis -logg
FAAD_LIB =
SMBSUPPORT_LIB =
XMMS_PLUGINS = no
XMMS_LIB =
MACOSX = no
MACOSX_FRAMEWORKS =

# --- Some stuff for autoconfigure ----
TARGET_ARCH_X86 = yes
TARGET_CYGWIN = no
TARGET_CPU=686
TARGET_MMX = yes
TARGET_MMX2 = yes
TARGET_3DNOW = no
TARGET_3DNOWEX = no
TARGET_SSE = yes
TARGET_ALTIVEC = no

# --- GUI stuff ---
GTKLIB =
GLIBLIB =
GTK_LIBS =
GUI = no
DEBUG = -DDEBUG

well, radeon cards are generally not well supported in linux, which drivers are you using? you could always pick up atitvout and use that or you can use the ati-gatos drivers and skip the mplayer tvout part entirely with atitvout it wont be made for your card so i cant say if it will work perfectly (or at all) my radeon 7500 is not supported but i can get tvout using atitvout -f t hopefully one of these options should work try the gatos drivers first