I was able to get the bvdd driver installed on Beta 4, and it seems to work, though I was testing it with bvdd enhanced SDL, and not mplayer.
I got the bvdd.0.4.0 IPK, and installed it. I'll put up instructions for the latest revision to beta 4 if needed. I think it was bvdd that I needed to unpack the IPK and manually install it due to some folders not existing that it wanted to unpack to.
Either way, I have a /dev/bvdd and a working init script. So I'd imagine it's worth a try installing that IPK and seeing if it works with mplayer. If someone tries it out with mplayer, let me know if it works for you.
Thanks
[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=127899\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]
Awesome news. I am very new to pdaxrom and the zaurus in general (I used to only run OpenBSD and use it mainly as a server), so just the fact that I can get some kind of acceleration for SDL working in beta4 sounds great to me . I've been programming my SDL to be playable for the Zaurus with no acceleration, so this should give me some more leeway.
Can you perhaps point me in the right direction to setting up SDL to use bvdd in my programs?
I've been running beta4 since this release and its been great - I have my XFCE 4.4 beta environment setup nicely but with 1 thing missing -> Is it possible to enable XComposite? I tried looking for an XFree config file but couldnt find anything. Hey, I got it working beautifully on OpenBSD (in portrait screen mode) - everything ran incredibly smoothly - so you can't say it will be too slow. It may slow something things down, but it would brighten up my desktop when using just text editors, webbrowsers etc.
Thanks,
Phill
EDIT: zodttd! your paypal donation link in your signature doesnt seem to be working. It just takes me to a page that says: "You have entered unsupported characters for this field. Current available language character types are: European, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and Thai. Please try again."
Also... i cant find this bvdd ipk where is it?