[ltp] Thinkpad A21P and SDL / GLX?

[Dong Liu]

I had the same problem which I did reported to this list. My solution
is to get GATOS X driver from http://www.linuxvideo.org/gatos/ which
fixed the problem.

Dong

beh@icemark.ch wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
>   I've got two questions regarding setup for a Thinkpad A21p.  So
> far, everything works fine, *except* two little things:
> 
>   - (at least) aviplay doesn't get video output right. While the
>     window has the right size, and the video the right height - the
>     video width looks like it's been doubled  (e.g. I can only see
>     the left half of the video in aviplay's window).
>     Since aviplay handles it's output through SDL, I suppose it's
>     either a fault there or in X - or, I hope, a matter of faulty
>     configs... ;)
>     (at the same time, aviplays output works on desktop machine
>      here).
> 
>   - while the glx extension is loaded, I don't seem to get 3D
>     acceleration...  Is 3D accelaration supported for this machine?
> 
> All my machines run on the "bleeding edge" Debian  (e.g. they use
> Debian unstable and are upgraded regularly).
> 
> 
> Does anyone know of a fix for either problem (or preferably both)?
> 
> 
>       Benedikt
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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