Hi! On 2002.08.28 22:06 Matt Holland wrote: > 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. Yesterday I tried a bit around. I tried only once because I lack the time to do this all day (since it crashes my machine now and then it takes a lot of time, you see), so I'm not yet sure I can reproduce this all the time, but: It worked when I told mplayer to use sdl as video-out. I watched a movie for about 2 Minutes and could also go Fullscreen without a crash. > 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. Well, I used RH 7.2 with XFree86 4.1 and all was fine. When I upgraded X to 4.2 the trouble began... So I think I can be pretty sure it's XFree86 4.2 causing the trouble. I wasn't sure if it wasn't me in the beginning (because i 'fixed' around a lot on my machine), but the trouble stayed after a fresh and clean RH 7.3 installation. So I think it's XFree86 4.2 > 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. I'm using and old Mainboard with an old AMD-751 chipset which definitively can't do AGP 4x. So this is not the problem. > 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). Don't. Use 7.2. It's better, using ext3 and all this. I worked a long time with 7.2 and only upgraded to 7.3 because of the trouble with movies... Crimson > > 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... _______________________________________________ Newbie@XFree86.Org *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
