xine is very slow and mplayer does not run the fs mode

egag · 06-20-2005, 08:56 AM

if you have an ati-rage, you can just fill-in that part in tha xorg.conf of Slack.
and make sure that in the section "screen ", the device refers to your device identifier ( "Device[0]").
then logout of X, and restart, or just reboot the pc.

egag

Basel · 06-20-2005, 09:10 AM

Thanks egag and acid_kewpie for your help.

my xorg.conf currently looks like this:

Code:

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "VESA Framebuffer"
    Driver      "r128"
    #VideoRam    4096
    # Inse

Both mplayer and xine are working fine now. I got even higher resolutions and more refersh rates.
I will try to update my xorg.conf and replace "Device[0]" and see what happens.

Code:

Section "Device"
  BoardName    "Rage 128 PF"
  BusID        "1:0:0"
  Driver       "r128"
  Identifier   "Device[0]"
  VendorName   "ATI"
EndSection

BTW, what is the command to restart X?

Thanks again,

Basel Mahdi

egag · 06-20-2005, 09:27 AM

no need to try the "Device[0]" thing.
it's just an identifier ( name ) that you give to the "device "
now it's named "VESA Framebuffer" and your screen section refers to the device with that name.
( well the name is not covering the load )

you could rename it to anything, as long as it's referred to in the screen section.

and restarting X ?
i myself boot to runlevel3 ( textmode ) and use "startx" to start X
so, i just click " logout " in the menu and X is stopped.
then just typing "startx" again does it here.
if you boot to runlevel 4 ( graph. login ) then i wouldn't know.
( i never do that... )

egag

Basel · 06-20-2005, 11:41 AM

Quote:

if you boot to runlevel 4 ( graph. login ) then i wouldn't know.
( i never do that... )

Is there a difference if I boot to runlevel 3 or 4?

egag · 06-20-2005, 12:12 PM

i thought i just wrote that...
-if you login on a command line on a textscreen( all black bg with a lot of white text)
--->that's runlevel 3; you use " startx" to go graphic.
-if you have a colored screen to login:
---> that's runlevel 4

egag

acid_kewpie · 06-20-2005, 01:47 PM

well X login is normally 5, not 4. most distro officially don't use 4 at all, although to be neat it's often equivalent to 5.

and to restart X in runlevel 5... just log out. that'll normally kill it, and it is then reloaded by the time you get the login screen back. you could always just zap it on the login screen anyway (Ctrl + Alt + Bksp)

egag · 06-20-2005, 01:57 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by acid_kewpie
well X login is normally 5, not 4. most distro officially don't use 4 at all, although to be neat it's often equivalent to 5.

and to restart X in runlevel 5... just log out. that'll normally kill it, and it is then reloaded by the time you get the login screen back. you could always just zap it on the login screen anyway (Ctrl + Alt + Bksp)

well...in Slackware it's called 4, and that's official enough.
and as Slackware is the oldest distro, i would say :
5 ( in other distros ) is often equivalent to 4.

just for the record...

egag

Basel · 06-20-2005, 02:01 PM

Thanks again for both of you.

acid_kewpie · 06-20-2005, 02:02 PM

OK, so hippies use 4, real people use 5. point taken.

egag · 06-20-2005, 02:11 PM

huh... ?
5 is for people on their way to 4...
remember:

how many roads..()..before they reach runlevel 4

( quote Bob )

egag