On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 4:54 PM, Thomas Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote:
> dsp told me he had rebuilt devel/sdl with three patches removed and
> this made the problem go away. I did what he did and it solved the
> problem for me too (amd64 Aug 7 snapshot -- dmesg in previous post).
>
> The patches removed are patch-src_video_x11_SDL_x11{sym_h,video_[ch]}
> They're the latest patches in the port dated 2011/05/13 and deal with
> XRandR and VidMode.
Yes, it's a patch that was added to have working brightness regulation
with openarena.
I confirm the buggy behaviour with 'mplayer -vo sdl' on amd64 and that
removing those patches fixes the issue.
> Thinking back a few snapshots I believe it was around this time that
> I first saw ffplay fail in this way, but I made no real notice about
> it since I rarely use it and xine and mplayer worked fine anyway.
>
> Thanks to dsp for sharing. Now I can play with qemu again ;-)
Thanks.
I think that commit should be reverted...
Ciao,
David
