Xvideo apps refuse to work on my system. That is, tvtime, zapping and gmplayer all crash out upon starting.

I'm running FC2, ATI proprietary drivers (3.7.6) and a Radeon 9600XT

A google shows people have had this problem since 2000, surely someone must have a solution. I have had it unbroken in the past, but it seems random.

could you please post what you get running xvinfo
your /var/log/XFree86.0.log and your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4

Greetings Felice

Voila:

http://members.lycos.co.uk/irtehclod/stuff.txt

Hmm,

xvideo seems to be configured well. You could try the new ATI 3.9.0 drivers at www.ati.com. But I wouldn't bet to much hope on them, because there are no fixes in the xvideo module.

I also have some troubles with ATI drivers. Therefore I have two XF86config files. One with ATI drivers for OpenGL and one for standard XFree86 RADEON with no 3D acceleration. (xvideo runs a lot better with them)
When I want to use an application having trouble with ATI drivers (and there are a lot). I copy my standard XFree86 RADEON config to XF86config and hit ctrl+alt+backspace for rebooting the X-server. It's annoying, but quite fast.

I know this is not the optimal solution, but better then doing without some applications.

If you give the new ATI 3.9.0 drivers a try, I highly recommend first uninstalling the old ones with
rpm -e drivername. I went in a lot of trouble just updating with rpm -Uhv --force newdrivers.rpm, how ATI recommends.

Good Luck and sorry for not having a good solution

Keep this thread alive, maybe someone has a solution

Ok, we have progress.

http://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=474

Keep an eye on that thread, and the RH bugzilla one linked in it.