[nzlug] Xine on Fedora 8: does it work for anyone?

[Patrick Connolly]

Somewhere about Fri, 02-May-2008 at 12:26PM +1200 (give or take), Simon Bridge wrote:


|> > 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 [Radeon X1200 Series]
|> > 0
|> > 
|> ATI all right. Now, which driver are you using?

Whatever the Fedora installer picked.  


|> 
|> > That would have turned up with the installation process, so it's what
|> > Fedora thought appropriate.  Does it make it more or less mysterious
|> > when kaffeine seems to have no problem with it?
|> > 
|> Well - that just points to some tweaking needed.
|> Probably, you should try running xine-check
|> http://linux.die.net/man/1/xine-check

Thanks for that tip: it was very informative.  It tells me I should
try xine-ui, but there doesn't seem to be an rpm at the Livna
repository.  I notice on my Mepis machine, there is a package of that
name.  What does one do for an rpm equivalent?

It also suggested I get an ATI accelerated driver here:
http://www.linuxvideo.org/gatos/
But that was diverted to a cheap viagra site.  How does one stop that
happening?

|> 
|> > |> 
|> > |> You may also want to check that DRI is enabled.
|> > 
|> > 
|> > Umm. Sorry for being so blonde.  How do I do that?
|> > 
|> > 
|> glxinfo | grep rend

$ glxinfo | grep rend
direct rendering: No (If you want to find out why, try setting LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose)
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect

Is there any point tinkering with that before I did the other suggestions?

best



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