Hey tehdon, thanks for the vlc tip - that worked. Easy when you know how eh?
Alan On 6/13/07, tehdon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm confused. Balaji, are you saying that we should be using the nVidia > driver for our Trident XP4/32m chipsets? I would suspect that if you indeed > tried that then xorg, upon initialization, would notice a problem, and fall > back to the VESA driver. I suspect that we are talking apples vs igneous > rocks here. But, to answer the previous question in a bit more depth: > > In order to get actual video playback from VLC you need to change the output > module to x11. The way you do this is to: > > Execute vlc in your normal fashion. I would press alt-f2 and type in vlc > myself, so that it loads faster. > Then open Settings, then select Preferences, which should give you a new > window titled Preferences. Expand the Video section and then expand the > Output > Modules subsection, then select it. Confirm that there is an X11 subsection > under the Output Modules subsection in the panel on the left. On the lower > right, you should see an Advanced Options select box, select it, because > that's us baby, advanced. > This should allow you to choose your Video Output Module. You want to > select X11 Video Output. Click Save, then exit out of VLC and reload to > make sure that the updated configuration takes over. > > Let me know how it works. By the way, if anyone has any Tecra M1 specific > questions, feel free to email me. > > YMMV > Donald Nixon > > On 6/12/07, Balaji <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Actually, I have solved the problem in a different way. I found that my > > windows get garbled upon scrolling because of the Video driver. When I > > installed the nVIDIA driver for Ubuntu, the problem was fixed. Initially, > > I > > was using envy from Alberto Milone's website to download his drivers. Ever > > since I have upgraded to Fiesty Fawn this problem I have used the Ubuntu > > nVIDIA driver in the repositories and it works just fine. > > > > Thanks, > > Balaji > > > > > > > > -- > 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
