Hello Ranger,

> To start out I partitioned my 10 GB hard drive with
> a 128 MB Swap Partition, a 50 MB Boot and then just

The swap space is a little small, I think.  General
rule of thumb is that it should be 2-2.5 times the
size of your RAM, though when you get up to about
512MB of RAM, I think 1X the amount of RAM should be
sufficient.

The boot partition is definately way big.  Most of the
time, I even forgo the boot partition, but if I do
create one, I find 15-20MB more than adequate (unless
you plan on compiling a lot of kernels and keeping
them arounnd :-) )

> bootloader.  After I got in I installed freevo ver
> 1.3.2pre4, freevo-runtime, freevo-appz, mozilla,

I assume you are referring to the RPM's?  I run
Mandrake 9.1 (for now), but for Freevo, I tend to use
the 14MB TGZ file, which is the binary download.

> rpm package manager.  IceWM in my windows manager.

Hrm, I kinda strugging with X myself (I currently run
in Frambuffer), but the default window manager (twm)
should be adequate; IceWM prolly just adds to the
overhead.

To those running Freevo under X: what window managers
do you use??

> my hardware working except for my sound card, (not
> sure what to do here).

That's odd; Mandrake is usually *excellent* at
detecting and configuring hardware.  What sound card
do you have?  Perhaps you should install and confidure
'sndcfg' (or 'sndconfig'??).  It should be included
with Mandrake 8.2 .

> and looks stupid.  When I try to play a video file
> it will display the first frame and then it

Hrm, very odd.  WHat is in your 'freevo.conf' file?

> I have enabled mplayer logging and it has shown

What do the Freevo logs show?  Do a 'tail
/var/log/freevo/main.log' and 'tail
/var/log/freevo/internal-main.log' right after one of
these "freezes", and post the output.

>     :No such file or directory
>     can't open '/root/.mplayer/codec.conf': No Such
> file or directory
>     Can't Open input config file
> /root/.mplayer/input.config: No such fiel or
> directory.

These are standard MPlayer error messages, since you
prolly don't have a config file in your directory;
it's okay though, because MPlayer will use the defauly
"system" config file in this case.

>     Requested audio codec family [mad] (afm=libmad)
> not availavle (enable it at compilation)

Are you using the MPlayer that comes with Freevo?  If
so, I find this message *very* odd, since the person
who compiles the MPlayer includes quite a lot in
there, and IIRC, including 'mad' support.

> Xlib: extension "XVideo" missing on display ":0.0".
> Sorry, XV not supported by this X11 version/driver
> ********** Try with -vo x11 or -vo sdl ************

WHat is in your 'freevo.conf' file for your display? 
Is it 'xv'?  If so, try 'x11'.

> freevo config file and found one instance of "xv"
> and I deleted it out.  It didn't fix anything

Which file did you find and delete it in?

Please advise.

Alan Murrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>




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