On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 02:42:24PM -0300, Iuri Fiedoruk wrote: > Em Qua 08 Mai 2002 13:37, Alan Hourihane escreveu: > > Huh ? Please explain. > > > > Alan. > > Ok, I'll try :) > The SDL problem is the most simple to test and describe. > > First of all, do you know that black/dark space between the screen and the end > of the monitor (the are between the max you can see in X and the end of the > glass and start of the plastic in monitor)? I'll call that the > black_nonused_area. > If I run a SDL app in window mode, change window focus to another X app > (dosen't matter whitch one) and then return the focus to the SDL app window, > the black_nonused_area gets colored! usually pink or orange! > Now if I move the SDL window to the black_nonused_area or outside of monitor > visible area.... freeze :) (I can do ir every time, always happen). > > The fullscreen... well happens when I run mplayer in xvideo VO (video output, > a option of mplayer) or SDL and press F to change to fullscreen... can you > imagine what happens? Yes system freeze! > > Another problem: > If I run mplayer with any video output other than x11 some parts of > graphics/colors on X gets colored, usually green, like that psicodelic > problem that happens with the 4.2 driver, but this dosen't happen on all > screen. But indeed, needs a reboot to colors get normal again (this looks > like it messes with video board memory...). > If I run xine, I get the full pink-psicodelic effect again, even that I'm > using your new driver. > > > Hope that helps to find the problems to fix the trident driver for XFree 4.2.1 > or sooner :) I'll try xine, but which chip & laptop have you got ? And a log from /var/log/XFree86.0.log would be useful ? Alan.
