On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Nick Rout <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
The other thing to try is xvinfo and see what it says.
