On Apr 28, 2006 06:17 AM, J Sloan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > What is the secret of getting xgl desktop with working video? I saw > the novell > demos so I know it's gotta be possible. > > I have a Dell GX270 with nvidia card, and it ran suse 10 flawlessly. I > did a > clean install of 10.1-RC1 since I wanted to see the xgl stuff in > action. I did > everything as defined in the "Novell cool solutions" article*, and the > rotating cube, transparency, and all the other compiz effects are > running as > advertised. Everything looks great. until I play a video. any video. > Playing a > realmedia file with realplayer, or an mpeg with xine or mplayer, gives > the > same result: the X server dies instantly the millisecond that I > attempt to > play the video. > > Is this a known issue? Surely I'm not the only one here who has tried > to view > a video on an xgl-enabled desktop?
I'm replying to opensuse@ as well, please continue the thread there, if necessary. I didn't try with an nvidia card, I have Intel on-board video, but I get the same crash when trying to play video with the xv driver. It's because the Intel driver does not have yet the capabilities required. But the nvidia driver does. Make sure you have these options in /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager DISPLAYMANAGER_XGL_OPTS="-accel glx -accel xv" If -accel xv does not work for you, try -accel xv:pbuffer If still not working, open your media player without any movie and set it to use video driver xshm instead of xv. It will be much slower, but it works for certain. It's the only way to see video on my Intel 915, that does not have fbo or pbuffer capabilities in the driver. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
