I'm having trouble playing DVDs and the problem is very similar to what some others seem to have experienced: I get sound and the disc plays but I have a blue screen in place of the video itself (totem-xine, ogle, vlc, xine). mplayer doesn't work because of a problem with the build that's being distributed and I'd rather wait for a replacement that make one from source.
I've looked around this forum, the ubuntu forums, and on google and I found a few things to try. Xine suggests adding
Code:
Option "XaaNoOffscreenPixmaps"
to the xorg.conf file in the Device section (doesn't do anything for me). Then I read a suggesting for running the sink test in Preferences->Multimedia Systems and it doesn't work (though switching drivers makes it work). Finally I saw that someone had better luck with "xshm" as their video driver (in place of "Xv"). I tried that and indeed it makes the DVD video play correctly, in fact it's the only driver in xine's menu that works.
The weird thing is that DVD playback used to work fine when I first installed Ubuntu 5.04 on this laptop, I played a DVD with totem-xine just fine without messing with any settings. Now all of the sudden I have this problem, but I suspect that it's after running the suggested system updates that pop up (some of them were definitely xine-related).
Does anyone else have a similar issue? Any suggestions for how to get the normal driver working? Is there a way to 'roll back' xine if it's part of the problem?
