Dear Xfree, I posted many a time a message about my problems with this graphic chipset I have been using since sept. 2001 on my Toshiba Laptop 1800-750 and also on a Sony Vaio PCG-801A. Since I read recently a message of someone having the same problem (and the answer was "try some other application other than mplayer") I sum them up again, knowing that this can sound all a bit naive... - Sometimes you can play movies, some other times you get a green/blu/pink window (this depends on the version of the driver). It happens with mplayer & xine & xawtv, and probably others. Of course I am talking about movies which work in other sessions or on other machines. - It seems to me that avi files make things generally go worse, old avis and mpgs usually work, dvds are ok. - You can play files fullscreen, you can t play dvds fullscreen (you get either a black screen or vertical lines with sound). - If you use gxine, you are 90% sure you ll have a green screen. - When you quit the green window, the screen is ok. But if you got a green window usually you have to shutdown and power on again if you want to watch a movie. Hoping for the best. Killing X won t work 98% of the times. - If you start xmame fullscreen you are quite sure you will get the green screen. If you start it windowed and you make it fullscreen afterwards you are quite sure you ll be fine. - If you run something dga, your screen will go on the left-upper corner, when you try to switch back you ll have either a smaller centered screen (with pieces of desktop cut) or a screen with a stripe on the right, which repeats some of the rest of the screen. - If you run some games (say tux or others) your screen will be split into say 6/7 vertical stripes, and you have to kill X. - Many splash screens are greenish, but not all. I tried to understand all this time if there is any kind of workaround, or something to do to avoid rebooting, with no luck. Only once, with a RH 7.1 and I think Xfree 4.2 I didn t experience the problem for a long time. I tried many distributions, precompiled and not Xfrees, with the same result. I don t want to sound polemic, but everytime I posted a message, I just got the answer "try the new drivers", but if you read in the release notes there is no mention about improvements in the trident drivers. So i guess the Xfree driver for the cyberblade/i1 will stay buggy forever (since I have TWO of these damned cards which work under windows I KNOW it s the driver) and the only thing I am asking for is to declare this driver as buggy, and if known, a possible procedure to avoid rebooting, which is really what bothers me the most. I also wish to express all my gratitude to all the ppl involved in one of the most important linux project for their great work. THANKS. Mit schönen Grüßen von Yahoo! Mail - http://mail.yahoo.de _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
