Sorry I can't offer a fix, but I can tell you that I've had problems as well. I can actually watch avi's and mpeg's most of the time, but there is often some distortion, especially as the movie starts up. Furthermore, if I try to watch a DVD using VideoLAN, I get a sort of lurching behavior, and attempts at navigation tend to crash X. All of this stuff happened when I "upgraded" from RH 7.1 to 7.3; since a lot of stuff changed between 7.1 and 7.3, it's not clear to me that X 4.2 is the problem per se. I guess my only suggestion would be to try turning off extensions that you're not using or don't need; I had hoped that turning off DRI would help, but in my case it didn't seem to. You might also try adding the line Option "AGPMode" "2" to the Device section for your video card in XF86Config-4; I seem to recall that some Rage 128 cards had problems with 4x AGP. Frankly, I'm considering just going back to RH 7.1, though, as this was a rather disappointing upgrade (I've also had many problems with X crashing when trying to use GTK apps, FWIW). Good luck! Matt > Hi! > I'm running a rather fresh 4.2 (which came with redhat 7.3) and I have > a problem: > Whenever I try to watch a movie (wether it's avi or mpeg doesn't > matter and I also used several movie players) my computer > freezes. First I get some blue distorsion in the picture of the > playing movie (sound is fine and sometimes stays running after the > freeze), then my whole XServer and the keyboard freeze. This realy > sucks, because I could watch movies with 4.1 and everthing was > fine. Now I have the feeling something was changed with the new "ati" > driver and I don't have the know-how to fix this. > I allready wrote a full bugreport but until know got no answer so I > thought I'd ask around if this were a more common problem and somebody > knew a fix... > > Regards, > Crimson _______________________________________________ Newbie@XFree86.Org *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
