Re: Changed from CRT to LCD monitor: now xine and gxine don't work (but mplayer does).

[Adam Funk <a24061@yahoo.com>]

Sven Arvidsson wrote:

> This is very much a guess, but anyway, what kind of video card do you
> have, and how much memory does it have?

Here's the relevant section of `lspci -vv`

0000:00:09.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. Savage 4 (rev 04) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
        Subsystem: S3 Inc. 86C394-397 Savage4
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 248 (1000ns min, 63750ns max), Cache Line Size: 0x08 (32 bytes)
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
        Region 0: Memory at cff80000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
        Region 1: Memory at c0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
        Expansion ROM at cff70000 [disabled] [size=64K]
        Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
                Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

It's several years old, PCI, with 32MB.
I suppose it might be time for an upgrade!

> It might be that because you are now running a higher resolution,
> there isn't enough video memory left to use the accelerated modes of
> Xine. Try setting the resolution back to 1024x768.

I'll try it as a diagnostic tool and report back, but I don't watch videos that much
on my computer and I'm hooked on the 1280 resolution for everything else now.

> This post might also be of interest (try the different options for Xine):
> http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/pipermail/linux-thinkpad/2003-October/013417.html

That looks useful.  I don't know yet what XV and XSHM mean, but now I have 
some useful terms to Google for.

Thanks!