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Make sure that your video card driver is set properly in /etc/X/xorg.conf
After installing Slackware on my machine the driver was set to vesa instead of r128 for my ATI Rage 128 card.
Distribution: OpenSuse 10.2, Slackware 11, Solaris 10
Posts: 415
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Xine-check output:
Code:
[ good ] found xvinfo: X-Video Extension version 2.2
[ hint ] Your X server doesn't support YV12 overlays.
That means xine will have to to color space transformation and scaling
in software, which is quite CPU intensive. Maybe upgrading your
X server will help here.
If you have an ATI card, you'll find accelerated X servers on
http://www.linuxvideo.org/gatos/
press <enter> to continue...
[ hint ] Your X server doesn't support YV12 overlays.
That means xine will have to to color space transformation and scaling
in software, which is quite CPU intensive. Maybe upgrading your
X server will help here.
If you have an ATI card, you'll find accelerated X servers on
http://www.linuxvideo.org/gatos/
press <enter> to continue...
[ hint ] Your X server doesn't have any XVideo support...
XVideo is an X server extension introduced by XFree86 4.x. This
extension provides access to hardware accelerated color space
conversion and scaling, which gives a great performance boost.
If you have a fast (>1GHz) machine, you may be able to watch all
kinds of video, anyway. You will waste lots of CPU cycles, though...
press <enter> to continue...
If upgrading Xine brings new problems, why on earth did they release a new version, when the old one was working perfectly, sure they should add functionality, but it should also be easy to install and use, not make the user end up making changes in various configuration files, which may eventually break other apps!!
changing your X driver to one that's accelerated should improve things across the board. That's really what xine-check is telling you to do.
That said, Xine should be able to open and play DVDs even without an accelerated X server.
In order to change the X over, though, change your default runlevel back to 3. Just in case something breaks while you're testing it, you don't want to find yourself with an unusable configuration.
That done, go to /etc/X11 and rename xorg.conf to something like xorg.conf-backup, and run xorgconfig. Choose the right built-in driver for your video card (or if you have an ATI or NVidia card, go to the vendor website and download the driver first, then follow their instructions to install). Test it with startx and make sure everything's working before you change back to RL4 by default.
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