After upgrading from SW 9.1 to 10 Xine has started to act funny.

Most times when it is windowed the window is blue, but it is OK at
fullscreen.

Mplayer works OK.

I think the problem is related to Xorg but I don't know how. I also had the
same problem with a clean install of SW 10.

Has anybody any ideas on what the problem might be and how to fix it?


TIA

Allan Miller

On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 16:59:34 +0100, allan miller wrote:

> Most times when it is windowed the window is blue, but it is OK at
> fullscreen.

Intersting, i have this too :/

> Mplayer works OK.

Not strictly true on my box, if i have firefox open mplayer
bombs on launch reporting badalloc errors, close firefox
and all is well again.

> I think the problem is related to Xorg...

I think you are right, i found a bug report for xorg that
explains my mplayer prob, perhpas the xine behaviour is
documented there too?

> Has anybody any ideas on what the problem might be and how to fix it?

Perhaps upgrade xorg, slackware current just has for
security reasons, but these bugs might be fixed too, i got
the slack packs, just gotta upgradepkg. (Make sure you modify your
xorg.conf as stated in the changelog)

I quote:

"x/x11*6.8.1-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to X.Org's X11R6.8.1 release.
Note that the name of the keyboard driver in the xorg.conf file has
changed from "Keyboard" to "kbd". You'll need to make this change in
order to start X."

cheers

Berk

Berk wrote:

> On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 16:59:34 +0100, allan miller wrote:
>
>> Most times when it is windowed the window is blue, but it is OK at
>> fullscreen.
>
> Intersting, i have this too :/
>
>> Mplayer works OK.
>
> Not strictly true on my box, if i have firefox open mplayer
> bombs on launch reporting badalloc errors, close firefox
> and all is well again.
>
>> I think the problem is related to Xorg...
>
> I think you are right, i found a bug report for xorg that
> explains my mplayer prob, perhpas the xine behaviour is
> documented there too?
>
>> Has anybody any ideas on what the problem might be and how to fix it?
>
> Perhaps upgrade xorg, slackware current just has for
> security reasons, but these bugs might be fixed too, i got
> the slack packs, just gotta upgradepkg. (Make sure you modify your
> xorg.conf as stated in the changelog)
>
> I quote:
>
> "x/x11*6.8.1-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to X.Org's X11R6.8.1 release.
> Note that the name of the keyboard driver in the xorg.conf file has
> changed from "Keyboard" to "kbd". You'll need to make this change
> in order to start X."
>
> cheers
>
> Berk


I have just been to the Xine home page and they report a fix for a blue
screen problem because of a bug in Xorg.

"Workarounds:

If you are getting a blue screen in xine gui when playing a video using the
xorg X server you need to make the following change to your xorg.conf file:

Section "Device"
.... other video card settings ...
Option "XaaNoOffscreenPixmaps"
EndSection "

Allan