On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 05:50:56PM +0200, Michael Hirvonen wrote: > Hello, > > I write to you after finding this e-mail address at > http://www.xfree86.org/~alanh/ > I've been having this problem for a while and tried to find a solution > to it but so far everything I've tried has been unsuccessful so I turn > to you for help. > > I have a Toshiba 1405-151S laptop which comes with the Trident > CyberBlade XP graphics chipset. The problem arises when I try to watch > video utilizing the Xv video driver for better performance. It doesn't > matter whether I use Xine or Mplayer, they both do this. The first time > I start playback wverything goes well, there is a small blue lining on > the left side of the video window but besides that everything is well. > If I now close that window and start another video almost always the > whole computer crashes instantly with nothing but a green screen with > blue lines across it. Sound usually freezes at this point and nothing I > do, except unplugging the computer, helps. > If I change to xshm video driver performance is terrible but so far I've > never experienced a crash. Also if I start a video using xshm before xv > it always "resets" the situation and I can go on like this but it would > be quite nice to know what the problem is and if it can be fixed. I suggest you download the XFree86 4.4.0 RC3 snapshot and try that. Goto http://www.xfree86.org to get it. Alan. _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
