In my case, the only upgrade was the trident_drv.o (I downloaded it from www.xfree86.org). This and the XF86Config was the only modifications I had to make. Since then, the Xv Extension doesn't work well anymore... All this makes me think this IS a driver problem. :-( X. On Thu, 29 Aug 2002 12:58:15 +0200 Crimson <thecrimson@web.de> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Newbie@XFree86.Org *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
