Upgrade to XFree86 4.4.0 as there have been many fixes for Xvideo related bugs in the trident driver. Alan. On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 05:44:58PM +0100, en ne wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
