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

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