Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] DVD Playback in Gentoo?
Carl Hudkins wrote: On Sun July 31 2005 15:16, Mike S wrote: I have used now 3 different distributions, ubuntu, debian, and now gentoo, and in all of them the same thing has happened, whenever I try to play a dvd my screen gets a yellowish tint, my teminals that may be open get distoted colors, (usually red) for the text in them, and it won't play. Has anyone gotten this to work? What color depth are you running X in? I recall having severe problems playing any sort of video in 24-bit color, so then I changed to 16-bit and I have no problems. I do notice that when playing most videos the colors of my desktop background get messed up, but I consider that a trivial problem and ignore it. (In a couple of hours the background changes, anyway.) If you run xine --verbose dvd:// in a command window, do you get any helpful information about what it's doing or where it quits? xine doesn't quit, totem does, but xine doesn't, xine just plays a blank screen. I think I am in 24-bit depth and I will look into changing that. Thanks a bunch. --Mike S -- gentoo-ppc-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] can't emerge firefox on ppc
Alexander Meyer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joseph Jezak wrote: Do you have kernel preemption on? If so turn it off. nope. it's off. btw i suspect this very kernel option to be responsible for massive heat-problems on my powerbook3,3 (which is a gen 2 tibook in applespeak) but i didn't have proof yet since i was too lazy to build another kernel with preemtion on after i had a working config that kept the machine cool (which had among other things preemtion off). Alexander -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFC7hCqw4sGV/pPyAwRAj+5AJ9X0novf1FsNjQ3+00az/i4DvLD0ACeOvIt oiwfuE2fuQKT1zGILS9KIxE= =40I6 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Is kernel preemption a bad thing? --Mike S -- gentoo-ppc-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-ppc-user] DVD Playback in Gentoo?
I am new to gentoo so first, let me say I am lovin it. However I am also new to a source distribution, so I may need a little leeway with the questions I ask. I have used now 3 different distributions, ubuntu, debian, and now gentoo, and in all of them the same thing has happened, whenever I try to play a dvd my screen gets a yellowish tint, my teminals that may be open get distoted colors, (usually red) for the text in them, and it won't play. Has anyone gotten this to work? I have tried totem and xine in gentoo and ubuntu, and the same happens. And one more thing. I emerged totem, and that complained about needing the xine backend, so then I emerged xine and re-emerged totem, and it said it was using the xine backend, but at the end of the emerge it still said that the default backend had been changed to gstreamer, do I need to emerge something else? --Mike S -- gentoo-ppc-user@gentoo.org mailing list
