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

[Patrick Connolly]

Somewhere about Thu, 08-May-2008 at 11:14PM +1200 (give or take), Simon Bridge wrote:


|> > 
|> > 
|> > |> 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

<that gives a very long list, but

$ locate  xine | grep bin
/usr/bin/aaxine
/usr/bin/cacaxine
/usr/bin/fbxine
/usr/bin/gxine
/usr/bin/gxine_client
/usr/bin/xine
/usr/bin/xine-bugreport
/usr/bin/xine-check
/usr/bin/xine-config
/usr/bin/xine-list-1.1
/usr/bin/xine-remote

xine --version
This is xine (X11 gui) - a free video player v0.99.5.
(c) 2000-2007 The xine Team.


|> 
|> > 
|> > Though a simple xine works (a kind of way). 
|> > 
|> What kind of way?

It starts, but the video is not up to scratch.


|> You see, I get:
|> $ xine
|> The program 'xine' is currently not installed.  You can install it by
|> typing:
|> sudo apt-get install xine-ui

That must be a debian-type distro, not Fedora.

If I try yum to do that sort of thing, I get this:

# yum install xine-ui
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
Requested dep: xine-ui is provided by installed package
Nothing to do



But what you show seems to be along the lines of what I see in my
Mepis 6.5 installation

# aptitude search xine
i   amarok-xine                     - xine engine for the Amarok audio player
p   gxine                           - the xine video player, GTK+/Gnome user int
p   gxineplugin                     - the xine video player, GTK+/Gnome; launche
p   kaffeine-xine                   - Xine engine for kaffeine media player
p   libarts1-xine                   - aRts plugin enabling xine support
p   libxine-dev                     - the xine video player library, development
i   libxine-extracodecs             - the xine video/media player library, binar
i   libxine-main1                   - the xine video/media player library, trans
i   libxine1                        - the xine video/media player library, binar
p   libxine1c2                      - the xine video/media player library, trans
p   libxinerama-dev                 - X11 Xinerama extension library (developmen
i   libxinerama1                    - X11 Xinerama extension library
p   libxinerama1-dbg                - X11 Xinerama extension library (debug pack
p   totem-xine                      - A simple media player for the Gnome deskto
p   totem-xine-firefox-plugin       - Totem Firefox Plugin - xine version
p   x11proto-xinerama-dev           - X11 Xinerama extension wire protocol
i   xine-ui                         - the xine video player, user interface

Which seems more consistent with what you see -- though xine at the
command line doesn't do what yours does: it gives me the 'standard'
user interface.

$ locate  xine | grep bin
/usr/bin/aaxine
/usr/bin/cacaxine
/usr/bin/fbxine
/usr/bin/kxineplayer
/usr/bin/xine
/usr/bin/xine-bugreport
/usr/bin/xine-check
/usr/bin/xine-config
/usr/bin/xine-remote

Version 
v0.99.4

|> bash: xine: command not found
|> 
|> So - "xine" probably just uses xine-ui as a default ui, and my info is
|> out of date.

That seems to be what's going on with my Mepis one.  Might just be the
difference between versions and the help page hasn't caught up.
What's your version?


|> 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.

I'm completely confused there.  There's no /dev/hd of any description
since I've used Fedora 8.  Hard disks are /dev/sd and a mounted DVD is
/dev/sr0.  

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

Lots of stuff there.  Thanks.  Can't understand why I don't get the
man pages when I installed it.

I suspect that something has become scrambled.  I'll remove a bunch of
rpms and reinstall them.

Thanks again


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