Re: QuickTime for Linux?

[David <dbree@duo-county.com>]

On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 01:50:18PM -0800, Scarletdown wrote:
> David wrote:
> >On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 12:56:21AM -0800, Scarletdown wrote:
> >
> >>I tried making an mplayer shortcut on the desktop, but it doesn't work.
> >
> >Try calling "gmplayer" instead of mplayer in your shortcut.  That's
> >what's update-menus put in my menu.
> >
> 
> That worked, and in the process, I discovered the Add Application Button 
> on the Task Bar 

> >BTW, does it run alright on your system?  I have both stable and testing
> >installed (separately) on my computer and both segfault.  If I start it
> >from my menu, it begins to load, a splash screen pops up and vanishes so
> >quickly that I cannot see what it says.  If I start gmplayer under X, or
> >mplayer from the console, it reports a segfault.  My hardware is pretty
> >old - P-166, Waverider ?? soundcard (not made anymore), Number Nine (S3
> >chip) graphics card, if that matters.  My sound is Alsa - the current
> >version for the respective systems.
> 
> It runs quite well on this system (ASUS A7N8X Deluxe with an Athlon 2500 
> Barton, 512MB RAM, on-board sound, GeForce 5600FX 256MB video card). 
> I'll give it a try on my testing station later to see if I can get it to 
> run on older hardware.  The testing station is a Packard Bell Multimedia 
> C115 with a Pentium-200. 96MB RAM, 4MB S3 video card, and some sort of 
> SoundBlaster sound card.

That sounds something on the order of my system.  What version of X do
you run on it?  I have xfree v4.2.1 on my testing system, but have been
running xserver-s3 V3.3.6.  I tried to upgrade to xserver-xfree86 but
can only get a black screen.  No fatal errors in the log.  After a few
seconds, the monitor goes into "Power Saving" mode.  Either the monitor
is shutting down for its own protection or the card is shutting down.
It all comes back up after I go back to a text screen.  It really
appears that my chipset is supposed to be supported, but I dunno.  It
also looks like I am trying to use the same video modes on it as I am on
v3.3.6...