Hi,

Question I:

I've got this strange problem; tvout in X doesn't work any more -- works fine from shell though (i.e. `bashing' on tv works ).

I have a ATI Radeon 7500 Mobile card on a Dell Inspiron laptop, running Debian unstable (up to date). I'm using the package atitvout to `attach' tv (command atitvout -f t)

The thing is, and the strange part, that everything worked fine a couple of days ago, Tuesday to be exact. So my guess is that some package, that has gotten updated since Tuesday (/between tuesday and friday), is causing this. Perhaps there's some really easy setting(s) that I have forgotten about?

Does anyone feel like taking a guess as to what package might be causing this / what settings I could try? I have a feeling it has something to do with X, not atitvout, but I could (very well) be wrong. Can you think of a package that might have something to do with this?

The only thing I've really added to Debian since then, is XFCE-4, including all recommended packages. (Don't see how that might have an effect?) *Everything looks fine, works fine*, except when looking at it through the tv. The commands I use to attach the tv is as they were when it worked, as is XF86Config-4 (I tried with a backup conf).


Question II:

This is a more trivial problem. I'm trying to play DVD's with my Samsung CD-RW/DVD -combo drive. Older DVD:s that I have work fine. Newer, however, all seem to `miss an ending' -- they just end abruptly, no credits, no nothing. Mplayer / xine just kind of state that `end of file', no more data.

At first I thought it was faulty DVD:s, but now after I've tried *six different ones*, all showing the same `symptoms', I'm starting to doubt that something else might be going on ... Anyone else experiencing something similar?

Have they started making DVD:s in some new way, creating DVD:s incompatible with my drive? (Samsung CD-RW/DVD-ROM SN-308B) Have I missed some mysterious settings? (Again, /has/ worked fine until now, never noticed any problems --- and still works fine with my /older/ DVD:s.)

Any ideas whatsoever?


Thanks.