[ltp] DVD playback on T21?

Tod Harter linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
Wed, 19 Dec 2001 09:37:32 -0500


On Wednesday 19 December 2001 05:31, you wrote:
> Nigel Metheringham writes:
> > Both xine and ogre  (both latest versions) give me a window filled with
> > green (almost solid - but with horizontal striping).
>
> On my T20, I see this with vlc (www.videolan.org) iff the Xserver has
> been running through a suspend/resume cycle.  Starting a fresh Xserver
> on another console lets me view dvds without restarting my session.

I have a question about that. What are the resource implications of starting 
a 2nd X server on another VC? I presume that you might have problems if you 
tried to use programs in more than one server that wanted to use DRI for 
instance... 

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