Re: TP a22p (Ati Mobility M3), mp4player, mplayer etc

From: Heiko Recktenwald (me_at_privacy.net)
Date: 07/15/05

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    Black Sun,

    On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 09:48:04 -0500, Dances With Crows
    <danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows@gmail.com> wrote:

    >On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 16:12:28 +0200, Heiko Recktenwald staggered into the
    >Black Sun and said:
    >
    >Message rearranged a bit for clarity.

    >> [When I try to play movies on a Thinkpad A22p,] the windows open in
    >> the expected size and mp4player, etc., just display a distorted
    >> image in the upper half of the screen. The y axis of the movie is
    >> only half as long as expected. [I] don't know what it is caused by,
    >> it happens on FreeBSD as well.
    >>
    >> Is Xorg broken, [or] do I have settings wrong?
    >
    >I've seen this before, but it was a long time ago and on XFree, not
    >Xorg. It's a problem with the Xv extension and the r128 graphics
    >chipset. When I was using XFree, I solved the problem by using the
    >GATOS X module for r128 instead of the XFree standard module. I haven't
    >seen this problem with Xorg. http://gatos.sourceforge.net/ . As a
    >temporary workaround, you could use the movie players' X11 video output
    >instead of the Xv video output. That's "-vo x11" for mplayer.

    No solution for the Cisco mp4player and I am on Windows in this
    moment, havent yet tested it, anyway, the secrets of xorg...

    Thanks!

    H.
    >
    >> There are some pages in the net on a22p Thinkpads, [but] this problem
    >> is never mentioned [on those pages].
    >
    >Like I said, the only time I've seen this happen was years ago with old
    >XFree.

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