83063 – nvidia guide doesn't tell about the use-flag "nvidia" used by xine and mplayer

Bug 83063 - nvidia guide doesn't tell about the use-flag "nvidia" used by xine and mplayer

Summary: nvidia guide doesn't tell about the use-flag "nvidia" used by xine and mplayer

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	[OLD] Docs-user
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	nVIDIA Trouble Shooting Guide (show other bugs)
Hardware:	x86 Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED)

URL:	http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia-g...
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Reported:	2005-02-23 06:14 UTC by Satan Claus
Modified:	2005-02-25 01:26 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Satan Claus 2005-02-23 06:14:25 UTC

The nvidia guide (I can only select the nvidia trouble shooting guide as component to file this bug-report in, while the guide is called "Gentoo Linux nVidia Guide", so sorry if this is wrong) doesn't mention that it might be useful to add "nvidia" to your useflags in /etc/make.conf . The useflag isn't documented in the online list of available useflags as well (see http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/use-index.xml ), but used by xine-lib as well as mplayer ebuilds.
AFAIK the useflag enables nvidia's XvMCNVIDIA which is useful when watching movies with high resolutions.

Perhaps the nvidia ebuild (nvidia-kernel, nvidia-glx) should provide the useflag as well(?) don't know

Reproducible: Didn't try
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Comment 1 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-02-25 01:26:18 UTC

Updated doco in CVS.