Re: Changed from CRT to LCD monitor: now xine and gxine don't work (but mplayer does).

From: Adam Funk (a24061_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 04/25/05

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    Sven Arvidsson wrote:

    > This is very much a guess, but anyway, what kind of video card do you
    > have, and how much memory does it have?

    Here's the relevant section of `lspci -vv`

    0000:00:09.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. Savage 4 (rev 04) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
            Subsystem: S3 Inc. 86C394-397 Savage4
            Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
            Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
            Latency: 248 (1000ns min, 63750ns max), Cache Line Size: 0x08 (32 bytes)
            Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
            Region 0: Memory at cff80000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
            Region 1: Memory at c0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
            Expansion ROM at cff70000 [disabled] [size=64K]
            Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1
                    Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
                    Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

    It's several years old, PCI, with 32MB.
    I suppose it might be time for an upgrade!

    > It might be that because you are now running a higher resolution,
    > there isn't enough video memory left to use the accelerated modes of
    > Xine. Try setting the resolution back to 1024x768.

    I'll try it as a diagnostic tool and report back, but I don't watch videos that much
    on my computer and I'm hooked on the 1280 resolution for everything else now.

    > This post might also be of interest (try the different options for Xine):
    > http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/pipermail/linux-thinkpad/2003-October/013417.html

    That looks useful. I don't know yet what XV and XSHM mean, but now I have
    some useful terms to Google for.

    Thanks! 

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