The above workarounds worked for me I'm glad to say, however, can other people confirm that video playback still doesn't work?
When attempting to play video (in vlc for example) I just get a blue screen, interestingly though video from youtube etc. (ie. flash based) works fine. Thanks, Alan On 6/8/07, tehdon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is no fix. It is a workaround, and it's posted a few comments up. The > default "Accelmethod" of EXA in the xorg.conf causes the trident driver to > break, you must replace the "Accelmethod" with XAA. I also download the > EXPERIMENTAL or UNSTABLE trident driver from the Debian repositories and then > I unpack the deb, and copy the trident_drv.so over the default one, just for > good measure. I sent Mark a step by step workaround. Here is the email: > -------------EMAIL--------------------- > Try this: > > I'm including two files, one is my xorg.conf file, and the other is > the experimental trident driver. Download both of these to a suitable > location, then execute the following commands in a terminal in order: > > cd <to the directory you downloaded to> > sudo cp /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/trident_drv.so > /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/trident.old > sudo cp ./trident_drv.so /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/trident_drv.so > sudo mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.old > sudo cp ./xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf > xinit > > Let me know if it works for you. > > Donald > ----------------EMAIL--------------------- > > The file was just the trident_drv.so that I unpacked from the xserver- > xorg-video-trident driver from the Debian repoisitory. You can get the > BINARY from here : > > http://packages.debian.org/cgi- > bin/download.pl?arch=i386&file=pool%2Fmain%2Fx%2Fxserver-xorg-video- > trident%2Fxserver-xorg-video- > trident_1.2.3-1_i386.deb&md5sum=ca10e27dd0595cf9024adf53145d671a&arch=i386&type=main > > YOU MUST NOT ATTEMPT TO INSTALL THIS FILE. YOU MUST UNPACK THIS FILE > AND MANUALLY COPY THE TRIDENT_DRV.SO FILE OR YOU WILL BREAK YOUR XORG > CONFIG. To unpack the xserver-xorg-video-trident driver file, you must > 'ar -x xserver-xorg-video-trident.deb' This will yield two tar.gz > files. Inside of one of these files is the trident_drv.so file you > need. > > The xorg.conf file is just a vanilla xorg.conf file with the > aforementioned changes. > > -- > Dragging and scrolling garbles window content (edgy beta) > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/63051 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of a duplicate bug. > -- Dragging and scrolling garbles window content (edgy beta) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/63051 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
