Problems with VLC skins displaying right

stratotak · 11-05-2009, 03:03 AM

Im running sid and and having problems with VLC skins showing right. Its not a sid issue as it was doing it with previous versions..dont know if this is a Debian issue or a VLC issue..Heres screens shot of what happening. all the skins do it..Some worse than others..

jim_p · 11-05-2009, 05:06 AM

Vlc skins (well some of them) are made with a specific version of vlc and will not work on a higher or lower one.

stratotak · 11-05-2009, 06:37 AM

Well If it were only a few skins that might be it..But its every skin..i downloaded the large skin pack with all of them..And every skin is messed up..I just heck with it and went back to unskinned version..

jim_p · 11-05-2009, 08:25 AM

What gpu and driver are you on? Do you use compositing?

stratotak · 11-06-2009, 12:48 PM

Uses a Dell laptop with a Ati Mobility 9000..Just using the xorg Radeon drivers and dont use composting. Ive just gone back to using no skins..

jim_p · 11-07-2009, 02:11 AM

A bit of "shot in the black", but give it a try. Change the following option in xorg.conf from EXA to XAA or the other way round.
I remember a friend of mine having a similar problem with pidgin's notification bubble, and this is what he did. His 2d perfomance became a bit slower, so he needed 2 more options to make it faster again. All that on a es1000 with the radeon driver.

So, from "man radeon"

Code:

 Option "AccelMethod" "string"
              Chooses  between  available  acceleration  architectures.  Valid
              options are XAA and EXA.  XAA is  the  traditional  acceleration
              architecture  and support for it is very stable.  EXA is a newer
              acceleration architecture with better performance for the Render
              and Composite extensions, but the rendering code for it is newer
              and possibly unstable.  The default is XAA.