[ltp] T21 Savage driver issues (Was: T21 -- RH 7.1 no MPEGs)

[D. Sen]

No ideas. But I have some info as well. When I leave out "Load  "extmod""  (effectively
disabling Xvideo and hardware movie accleration) from the Modules section of XF86Config-4,
I can play DVDs and MPEGs, without any problems.....(except for the high CPU load). So,
I think that validates the theory that the xvideo extension has bugs.

With xvideo enabled, I can play DVDs and MPEGS (at 16 bpp, never at 24 bpp) for about the
first 6 hrs of starting X. After that it goes back to its old behaviour of rendering weird
blue, red, yellow scan lines....with perfect audio. I have tried it a few times and It
invariably stops working after a while.

I would be interested in knowing if your success in playing DVDs is time limited like mine.
Also, its weird that you cant play mpegs while you can play DVDs. Have you tried xmovie
from http://heroinewarrior.com/xmovie.php3   to play your MPEGs?

DS

Friedemann Baitinger wrote:

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> On Wed, 9 May 2001, D. Sen wrote:
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> > Ok, I take that back. It works *sometimes*. Right after I sent that email, I tried
> > xmovie and vlc again and they didnt work. Restarting X, had them working again.
>
> Just want to give you an update on our famous topic: Due to the disk
> going bad on my T21 I had to reinstall RH 7.1 from scratch. I am not
> aware of doing anything different than just about a week ago, however,
> all of a sudden 'vlc' works on my machine with 'Xvideo' output (!). As I
> said, I have no idea what is different. Perhaps one hint which I don't
> fully understand myself yet: With the old installation I was able to
> play .mpegs with xmms except that I could only see blue and/or green
> garbage in the window and I got similar output with 'vlc'. Now with
> the newly installed RH 7.1, I cannot even start playing mpegs with xmms,
> mpeg files are just skipped from mixed mp3/mpeg play lists. It seems
> like xmms is looking for some library which I happened to had installed
> in the old RH 7.1 and now it seems to be missing _but_ now I can watch
> DVD with 'vlc'. Any ideas? Here is what xmms uses:
>
> [root@blackbox doc]# ldd /usr/bin/xmms
>         libgtk-1.2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0 (0x40024000)
>         libgdk-1.2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgdk-1.2.so.0 (0x40159000)
>         libgmodule-1.2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgmodule-1.2.so.0 (0x4018f000)
>         libgthread-1.2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgthread-1.2.so.0 (0x40192000)
>         libglib-1.2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0 (0x40195000)
>         libpthread.so.0 => /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0 (0x401ba000)
>         libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x401cf000)
>         libXi.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXi.so.6 (0x401d4000)
>         libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x401dc000)
>         libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x401ea000)
>         libm.so.6 => /lib/i686/libm.so.6 (0x402ca000)
>         libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x402ee000)
>         libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x402f7000)
>         libxmms.so.1 => /usr/lib/libxmms.so.1 (0x4030e000)
>         libc.so.6 => /lib/i686/libc.so.6 (0x40316000)
>         /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
>
> [root@blackbox vlc-0.2.73]# rpm -qa|grep SDL
> SDL-1.1.7-3
> SDL-devel-1.1.7-3
> SDL_mixer-devel-1.1.0-2
> SDL_image-1.1.0-1
> SDL_mixer-1.1.0-2
> SDL_image-devel-1.1.0-1
>
> [root@blackbox vlc-0.2.73]# rpm -qa|grep mpeg
> smpeg-0.4.2-2
>
> >
> > "D. Sen" wrote:
> >
> > > Friedemann Baitinger wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > > 3) Cannot play mpegs/dvds at 24 bpp color depth.
> > > >
> > > > For completeness: doesn't work in 16 bpp color depth mode either.
> > >
> > > I actually have this working at 16 bpp. I can use vlc to play DVDs and xmovie to
> > > play mpegs. Didnt have any success with oms or xine. *Nothing* works at 24bpp. Didnt
> > > test for 8bpp
> > >
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