Re: Follow-up: Black blank mplayer kaffeine screen fixits

On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 02:10:14 +1000
Jim Adamthwaite <secad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

jim@mybox:~> xdpyinfo | grep -i XV
XVideo

Good, you have xv. Make sure you have these lines in your
/etc/X11/xorg.conf:

Load "v4l"
Load "dri"

under the modules section and relogin to X. You can now change mplayer
from using gl to xv. Also, if you have one of those on board chip that
shares its memory with main memory, you might want to increase the
video ram in the bios and put the corresponding figure in the VideoRam
perameter in the Device section of your xorg.conf, eg:

VideoRam 65536

jim@mybox:~> free
total used free shared buffers
cached Mem: 514348 432872 81476 0
45112 257620 -/+ buffers/cache: 130140 384208
Swap: 1036184 12772 1023412


Then, while running Kaffeine with a big window:

jim@mybox:~> free
total used free shared buffers
cached Mem: 514348 469804 44544 0
45672 259660 -/+ buffers/cache: 164472 349876
Swap: 1036184 12772 1023412

These looks OK, but you might consider getting more memory. That is
the best upgrade money can buy.

You're right, it's not there. Whereabouts in the file should it go?
I imagine order is important.

You can just add it to the end. You might want to add a comment so you
will know what it is, ie:

# Allow RTC (Real time clock) access
add /dev/rtc desktop

BTW, a /dev/rtc entry already exists in directory /dev/...

Of course there is one. What that line does is to change the permissions
so you can access it while in X.

Charles

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