A partial followup of the totem part of a message I sent last month. On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 09:22:17PM +0000, Ken Moffat wrote: > > 2. 'totem' now uses clutter libraries, and if started from a > terminal it lets you know it (dies immediately): > > ken@ac30 ~ $totem > > (totem:8077): Clutter-CRITICAL **: Unable to initialize Clutter: > Unable to find suitable fbconfig for the GLX context: Unable to find > fbconfig with rgba visual > GLib-GIO-Message: Using the 'memory' GSettings backend. Your > settings will not be saved or shared with other applications. > (that one is from a non-gnome desktop - needs one of the gnome daemons, probably gnome-settings-daemon which is run from gnome-session if you use a gnome desktop)
[ snipping some more warning and critical mesages, to ] > > (totem:8077): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_connect_data: > assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed > > (totem:8077): Clutter-CRITICAL **: clutter_stage_set_color: > assertion `CLUTTER_IS_STAGE (stage)' failed > Segmentation fault > > This is on my AGP radeon7500 (R100) with working (but slow) glx. > > Arch linux appears to have chapter and verse on this, with a > recommendation to export CLUTTER_DISABLE_RGB_VISUAL=1 - that worked > a couple of times (enough for me to discover that while the sound > was ok, the video only changed about once every 5 seconds, like a > slideshow), but then stopped helping. > > There is a gnome bug, > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660930 > but the patch in that doesn't help. > Turns out I have a typo above, the correct workaround for video hardware without 3D acceleration is: $ export CLUTTER_DISABLE_ARGB_VISUAL=1 I've since established that anything using clutter will not play reliably on my non-accelerated video hardware. Unfortunately, the video effects for audio tracks are enabled by default in totem. These take priority and ensure that sound drops out, usually after only a few seconds. If these are turned off in the preferences, playback of audio is possible for me. There is no obvious way to only play the audio from a video file, so there too sound usually drops out quickly. So, not totally unusable for me on this hardware, only 99% :-| I'll put it in the book when I'm merging Wayne's stuff (nearly ready for the first batch!), but with a note. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
