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

[Simon Bridge]

On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 22:44 +1200, Patrick Connolly wrote:
> Somewhere about Tue, 06-May-2008 at 04:53PM +1200 (give or take),
> Simon Bridge wrote:
> |> 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 would do it.
But see below and lets not go in two directions at once.

> |> 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
> 
uggerbay!

> |> Enter "xine-ui" into a console.
> 
> 
> $ xine-ui
> bash: xine-ui: command not found

locate xine

> 
> Though a simple xine works (a kind of way). 
> 
What kind of way?
You see, I get:
$ xine
The program 'xine' is currently not installed.  You can install it by
typing:
sudo apt-get install xine-ui
bash: xine: command not found

So - "xine" probably just uses xine-ui as a default ui, and my info is
out of date.

> 
> |> 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.

Well - I'm only going by what you tell me.

yum says that xine-ui is installed, but bash says it cannot find it.
xine-check says you have scsi emulation on your optical drive, you say
it isn't.

scsi emulation is not supposed to be the default in f8. you could always
try: "hdparm -d1 /dev/hdx" where x is your drive.

and you seem to have the fglrx driver installed and running OK, but not
the documentation.
http://www.linux-man-pages.org/man4/fglrx/