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

[Patrick Connolly]

Somewhere about Tue, 06-May-2008 at 04:53PM +1200 (give or take),
Simon Bridge wrote:

|> 

|> On Sun, 2008-05-04 at 17:22 +1200, Patrick Connolly wrote:

|> > Somewhere about Sat, 03-May-2008 at 06:14PM +1200 (give or take),
|> > Simon Bridge wrote:
|> > 
|> > |> AFAIK: the "radeon" driver does not support your card - which suggests
|> > |> you are using VESA.
|> > 
|> > Correct.  It's a very short config file compared to others I've seen.
|> > 
|> Of course, another option is just to disable compositing.

To do that, do I remove this, or change to Disable?

Section "Extensions"
	Option	    "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection





|> That's right - now try: "glxinfo | grep rend"

# glxinfo | grep rend
direct rendering: Yes
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Radeon X1200 Series





|> Enter "man fglrx" for the options available to you. I think you need

$ man fglrx
No manual entry for fglrx


|> "option glx on" in device and "dri 666" in server. But I haven't checked
|> - it's a good learning exercise for you ;)


|> > That would indicate that the livna packages are something not quite
|> > like what the Xine people have in mind (assuming that's the xine-check
|> > people also).
|> > 
|> Enter "xine-ui" into a console.


$ xine-ui
bash: xine-ui: command not found

Though a simple xine works (a kind of way). 


|> Nope - it's telling you what has been suspected: DMA is not active.
|> ATAPI support for optical drives is pretty good now, scsi emulation
|> should not be needed.
|> 
|> You probably have a "hdc=ide-scsi" in your menu.lst ... remove it.

Not on this machine


|> Re-run xine-check and it will have advice about turning on DMA.

Thanks for all the suggestions, but they don't seem to be describing
what this machine does.

 Actually, most of it works.  Think I'll have to work out how to undo
what I've done and start again.  I installed the same OS on a lappy
which uses intel drivers and it's fine (apart from the intel
limitations).

best

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