[ltp] DVD plays half of the screen twice

[Tino Keitel]

On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 09:43:50 -0500, Charles E Taylor IV wrote:
> On 04 Dec 2002 09:09:17 -0500
> Derek Rogillio <dereklist@rogillio.net> wrote:
> 
> > That is the way I understand it.  For 8.0, Red Hat modified XFree86
> > 4.2.1 to include support for the Xft2.0 extensions that are currently in
> > the XFree CVS code. 
> 
> $rpm -q XFree86
> XFree86-4.2.0-72
> 
> Red Hat 8.0 apparently uses XFree86 4.2.0.  Besides, the initial problem
> (DVD playback broken) was reported by a Gentoo user - using (presumably)
> stock XFree86 4.2.1.
> 
> > It's a major factor in my current search for a new distribution.  I've
> > been using Red Hat exclusively since 5.x, but I am now looking at more
> > "hacker-friendly" distributions like SlackWare and Gentoo.

I have convinced a friend of mine of Debian because he often got stuck
if he wanted to compile stuff on his SuSE box. I gave him an account on
my Debian box and compilation just worked. :-)

Well, in this case, XFree86 drivers, Debian also releases packages with
patches that are not included in the XFree86 release.

> So long as you don't need to play DVDs on a Thinkpad 700X or 700Z, you'll
> be fine... :)

I would give the driver at http://www.xfree86.org/~alanh/ a try.

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