I'm using slack-10.1 with 2.6.11.9 kernel from testing.

I do not seem to be loading xvideo although there does not seem to be any noticeable problem with any program other than maybe xawtv which cannot give me a video stream. The output of xvinfo is below.

rick@rick:~$ xvinfo
Xlib: extension "XVideo" missing on display ":0.0".
xvinfo: No X-Video Extension on :0.0

Can anyone point me in the right direction with regards to how this extension can be loaded?

I do not believe it is driver related as I have had this problem whether it was the generic vesa, nv or nvidia driver loaded.

TIA

generally you will only recieve xvideo extensions if your hardware supports it. vesa output will never support xvideo (afaik) but the other to should do just fine. If the hardware supports it, it will be there. some drivers , such as sis, do allow explicit enabling or disabling, but it would always be on if possible really.

Ok then it would be a matter of figuring out whether or not my nvidia (GeForce2 MX/MX 400) card supports it?

And if it does then does it have to be called for in xorg.conf?

It is called automatically, no need to add a explicit line in xorg.conf
like Video4Linux module

Are you using the Nvidia binary driver?

I'm not quite sure what you mean by "the binary driver".

The driver I'm using is compiles against my kernel from a script downloaded from nvidia. I'm not home now but it was 71something.

Just the standard thing I usually do then change nv to nvidia in xorg.conf.

Just to end this thread on a happy note in case anyone else comes here with the same situation....

The magic words are Load "extmod" to get xvideo