On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 03:10:58PM +1200, Ryurick M. Hristev wrote: > On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Stephen Nicholas wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 09:52:47AM +1200, Tim Wright wrote: > > > On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Stephen Nicholas wrote: > > > > > > > I'm having issues getting movies to play on my laptop... mpeg's, avi's > > > > and dvd's all play sound but no picture, the picture shows just a green > > > > screen. This happens in ogle, vlc, mplayer and aviplay. > > [...] > > > Thanks for your help Tim, I changed my XF86Config-4 to default colour depth > > of 16bit and all movies work fine now. > > My guess: This is a Xv/Xshm driver issue. > > 1. make sure you load the Xv driver in XF86Config-4 > (presumably your video card is supported)
Um... how? in the "Modules" section? I don't seem to have any Xv option. The Card is a VIA Pro Savage KN133 .... it seems to work okay at 16bit, so i guess its supported. Ogle says "Xv Xshm" in the window frame, does this mean that its using Xv/Xshm... ? > > 2. make sure your player uses it (e.g. xine defaults to the last one, > you have to specify the new one, first time) > Um... hmmmm... > 3. I got this also on my laptop after a hibernation (to disk) > eiteh the player does not reinitialize Xv properly or > the BIOS does not save/restore the video state as it should. > I'm using ACPI, not entirely sure how to fully hibernate (I assume you mean like APM's suspend (which i have on the desktop)) with that. ATM tho the hardware screen blanking blanks the screen when dvd's are playing, so I have to move the mouse every 10 minutes or whatever. Do you know how to disable this? > Cheers, > -- > Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Computer Systems Manager > University of Canterbury, Physics & Astronomy Dept., New Zealand > Thanks for your help, Steve -- )--------------------Stephen Nicholas--------------------( Uni Hall Ph: (03) 341 1500 Private Bag 4760 Extn: 54419 Christchurch 021 504 412 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 70245950 )---------------www.steve.nicholas.net.nz----------------(
