On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Barry <[email protected]> wrote: > Nick Rout wrote: >> >> > There are no problems with video when running Mandriva 2009.0 either live or > installed > > No I do not want to change distros, I want both boxes similar as possible. > > ram in the lappie bios appears fixed at 32k part of 512k.
I assume you mean M not k? > > 'mplayer -vo null file.avi' plays the sound track ok. > 'mplayer -vo x11 file.avi' plays the sound and video ok. > 'mplayer -vo xv file.avi' locks up keyboard, no mouse, mplayer screen but no > image. Had to restart X (from xterm login). > > Chris talked me into trying Sabyon once upon a time, the splash screen was > yuk, for heavens sake who looks at the splash screen for more than a few seconds? >and it installed every app known most of which I did not want/need. > He's still trying, good on you Chris. The fact is that your distro is broken, and that's why the change is suggested. You might like to try pclinuxOS which is based on mandrivel, so should be familiar to you. http://www.howtoforge.com/the-perfect-desktop-pclinuxos-2010-kde > > rebooted with Mandriva 2009.0 running live, copied xorg.conf across to hd, > then restarted. Got the same results as before. > > I also tried running a vid with mplayer by ssh from my other box displaying > on the laptop screen. Again it crashed. The point of doing it that way was to get the output and post it back here (or google on the error) to see what is going wrong. Try posting the results back. > > My conclusion is that there is a fault in libxv1 which makes it misbehave > with the video card in the laptop. I have just also found on the net that a > very few others have had a similar problem with this particular laptop > model. > > Have now put 'vo=x11' in my mplayer/config file but have yet to sort out vlc x11 will be very slow in comparison to xv. I suggest an strace run to confirm the problem. Then contact mandrivel through their support channels (I assume they support their users, but last time I looked, admittedly a long time ago, they were very unfriendly.) Along these lines, have you updated since installation? vlc will also allow you to change the output method, but I am not familiar enough with it to tell you how without looking at a running copy.
