[ltp] DVD playback

Charles E Taylor IV tomalek at mindspring.com
Mon Apr 28 16:03:13 CEST 2003


On Mon, 28 Apr 2003 14:24:20 +0100
TSchutzerWeissmann at uk.imshealth.com wrote:

> I'm using slackware 9 which has XFree 4.3.0. The card is Trident
> CyberBlade Aladdin i1, and X uses the trident driver.

My 770Z running Redhat 9 uses the Trident driver as well (XFree86
4.3.0) and Xv works there.  Not that this help much, but it's a point of
reference.

> At the moment telling xine to use XV gives a screen full of green mush,
> which is why I try using xhsm. But if Xv is what I need then I'll
> transfer my energies into getting it to work.

I had to play DVDs the same way until I figured out how to "fix" X when I
ran Redhat 8.0 (basically, I copied over a working trident.o file
from an old version of Redhat!). It's no fun.

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