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

[Simon Bridge]

On Sat, 2008-05-03 at 12:31 +1200, Patrick Connolly wrote:
> 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.  
> 
Well you need to go find out... find fedoras video setup dialog in it's
menus. Probably the same place you set the screen resolution.

Or - you can:
less /etc/X11/xorg.conf

and scroll down until you find a device section which is named after
your video card. It will have a line that says "driver".

AFAIK: the "radeon" driver does not support your card - which suggests
you are using VESA.

If you enable the "livna" repo, you can install the "fglrx" driver with
YUM.

yum install kmod-fglrx

See http://www.fedorafaq.org/#radeon

You don't want to use the official ATI package that some people will
suggest. But you will want to check that the current linux fglrx driver
supports your card.


> 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?
> 
yum clean all
yum update
yum install xine-ui

It's just a GUI.
Presumably it had other suggestions - such as enabling DMA?

> 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?
> 
linuxvideo domain has been hijacked by domain squatters. It happens.

> $ 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?

Nope - we now know that you are very unlikely to be running a 3D driver.
I'll bet that the CPU use goes through the ceiling when you try to watch
a DVD.