Greetings - long story, but keep in mind, I was up until 3:30am reading
the past 6 months of the list, and checking every web resource I could
find, but I'm struggling and could really use a livesaver.   I'm really
close, and keep in mind, I've freed myself from everyday supplication to
M$, and it's been a few years in the coming...



In hopes of activating Xv properly and getting xine to run smoothly (which
very very nearly worked perfectly), I re-installed X (just like they say
on xfree), but have since lost my window manager and session prefs, to a
large degree, or at least the ability to start X *with* them, and or
modify them *from* X.

Everytime I run X, I get tossed into twm, but can run a panel and launch
my window manager prefs and such (getting "clamping" errors all the
while).  Fighting this, I have reinstalled X once again, and the xine
results are far worse than before, mpeg2 and avi/divx is now impossible to
display without large losses, and or complete failure on the latter files.

Running an AMDk6-2 450 w/384M and a Matrox 450 dual-head w 16M

I was tweaking the dual head (and some minor frame losses in mpeg2
video) when I got further lost, I was able to get a dual display to
work fairly well (bad aliasing on the 2nd display), but could *not* play
video on the 2nd head to save my life.

I notice that xvinfo reveals either no information about the 2nd screen,
or states that it has no card driving it, although I can see that the
memory on the card has been split between displays.


Questions:

1. Are there any good examples/resources of session files and/or manual
tweaks to get my startup (gnome or kde vs twm) fixed?  Suggestions?

2. Is there anything specific I should look at when I reinstall X, in
order to make it happier with xine?

3. Can the Matrox card even *display* video (mpeg, etc) on the 2nd head?





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