How Can I Improve Performance Of My Video Card?

H_TeXMeX_H · 09-19-2008, 01:08 PM

Well it was "Last edited by i3dmaster; January 15th, 2007 at 04:40 PM. Reason: Add comments made by bodhi.zazen.", so it's not that old. If you can find a newer one, try to, I used google and I found this one, it's quite good and I think there's a good chance it will work.

I don't know too much about vlc, does it give any errors when you run 'vlc' in a console ?

farslayer · 09-19-2008, 01:50 PM

How did you uninstall and re-install vlc ? did you use remove or purge ? did you purge all pacakges related to vlc ?

sudo aptitude purge vlc mozilla-plugin-vlc libvlc0 vlc-nox ( these are the vlc packages I have installed currently )

sudo aptitude install vlc mozilla-plugin-vlc

I might even be tempted to clear the apt cache to force the packages to download again if you are still having issues.

taurusx5 · 09-20-2008, 12:43 AM

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Originally Posted by farslayer

How did you uninstall and re-install vlc ? did you use remove or purge ? did you purge all pacakges related to vlc ?

sudo aptitude purge vlc mozilla-plugin-vlc libvlc0 vlc-nox ( these are the vlc packages I have installed currently )

sudo aptitude install vlc mozilla-plugin-vlc

I might even be tempted to clear the apt cache to force the packages to download again if you are still having issues.

Thanks, farslayer for getting back to me on this crucial issue. I did run the commands to purge then reinstall as you had instructed. But, the same problem persists. I'm going nuts over this, big time. When I try to load VLC in shell, this is what I get:

By the way texmex, thanks for your input, big man!

x@xx:~$ vlc
VLC media player 0.9.2 Grishenko
[00000001] main libvlc debug: VLC media player - version 0.9.2 Grishenko - (c) 1996-2008 the VideoLAN team
[00000001] main libvlc debug: libvlc was configured with ./configure '--mandir=/share/man' '--infodir=/share/info' '--host=i486-linux-gnu' '--build=i486-linux-gnu' '--enable-release' '--prefix=/usr' '--enable-libtool' '--disable-gnome' '--disable-gtk' '--disable-familiar' '--disable-fb' '--enable-ggi' '--enable-sdl' '--enable-esd' '--enable-pulse' '--disable-qt' '--enable-mad' '--enable-arts' '--enable-alsa' '--enable-lirc' '--enable-a52' '--enable-aa' '--enable-dvbpsi' '--enable-mozilla' '--disable-kde' '--enable-mp4' '--enable-dvb' '--enable-dv' '--disable-satellite' '--enable-ogg' '--enable-vorbis' '--enable-wxwidgets' '--with-wx-config=wx-config' '--disable-slp' '--enable-flac' '--disable-skins' '--disable-basic-skins' '--enable-skins2' '--enable-freetype' '--enable-mkv' '--enable-v4l' '--enable-pvr' '--enable-speex' '--enable-caca' '--disable-live555' '--enable-libmpeg2' '--disable-dca' '--enable-fribidi' '--enable-cdio' '--enable-mod' '--enable-theora' '--enable-modplug' '--enable-dvdnav' '--enable-gnutls' '--enable-ffmpeg' '--enable-ncurses' '--enable-smb' '--disable-gnomevfs' '--enable-bonjour' '--enable-mpc' '--enable-vcd' '--enable-vcdx' '--enable-xosd' '--enable-notify' '--enable-jack' '--enable-libass' '--enable-asademux' '--enable-svg' '--enable-snapshot' '--enable-update-check' '--enable-faad' '--with-faad-tree=extras/faad2' '--enable-x264' '--with-x264-tree=extras/x264' '--enable-glide' '--enable-svgalib' '--enable-dvd' '--without-dvdcss' 'build_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-g -O2' 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions' 'CPPFLAGS=' 'CXXFLAGS=-g -O2' 'PKG_CONFIG_PATH=KG_CONFIG_PATH:extras/x264:extras/faad2'
[00000001] main libvlc debug: translation test: code is "C"
[00000398] skins2 interface: skin: VLC 0.8.5 Default Skin author: aLtgLasS
WARNING: QApplication was not created in the main() thread.
ASSERT failure in QCoreApplication: "there should be only one application object", file kernel/qcoreapplication.cpp, line 423
Aborted

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H_TeXMeX_H · 09-20-2008, 03:35 AM

I see that you are not using the VLC from the ubuntu repo, how come ? I recommend you try that one, this one looks to have issues.

taurusx5 · 09-20-2008, 11:54 AM

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Originally Posted by H_TeXMeX_H

I see that you are not using the VLC from the ubuntu repo, how come ? I recommend you try that one, this one looks to have issues.

Hi, texmex. I solved my issue with vlc. Thanks to you and the rest of the guys for your inputs.

One last question I got is, how can I disable services in sysv-rc-conf? Do I uncheck all the runlevels of a given service on there?

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farslayer · 09-20-2008, 10:08 PM

If you want to disable a service so it will not run on your next reboot, un-check all the boxes for that service.
If you want to immediately stop the service then select the service and type a '-' Minus.

The default runlevel for Debian / ubuntu is runlevel 2

Aren't the direction at the top of the screen in sysv-rc-conf ? they are in mine...

taurusx5 · 09-21-2008, 10:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by farslayer

If you want to disable a service so it will not run on your next reboot, un-check all the boxes for that service.
If you want to immediately stop the service then select the service and type a '-' Minus.

The default runlevel for Debian / ubuntu is runlevel 2

Aren't the direction at the top of the screen in sysv-rc-conf ? they are in mine...

farslayer, thanks alot dude! You and the others on here have helped retore my confidence in ubuntu. I was actually on the verge of uninstalling it on place of xp. But, you guys came to the rescue in the nick of time. I can't thank you and the others enough...

Have a good one !!!

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