Re: Video card recognition
On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 12:06:30 +0100 (CET), Vegard Lundby Rekaa
<vegardlr@student.matnat.uio.no> wrote:
> I probably should have figured out this by my self, but I have not
> succeded. I'm greatful if someone have an idea what is wrong, or what the
> solution might be.
>
> It seems I havn't got Debian to recognize my videcard. Before installing
> debian, my DivX movies where running smoothly, but now the movies run
> staccato (stops and goes) all the time. Besides that there is no problem
> with the picture in Win.Man.
>
> I would guess that debian isn' t using the full video memory or somethong
> like that? Is there any configchanges I could do or any files/progs that
> will fix it?
>
> I have tried editing the XF86Config-4 file changing the resolution and
> depth. I even tried to add a subsection containing depth = 32. The result
> to all my changes: window manager wouldn't start.
>
> Video card: Asus V7700 (D) with 32Mb video memory. Asus.com could only
> help me with driverfiles for Windows!!!
>
> OS: Debian Sarge kernel 2.4.26-1-386
>
I think is related to what backend you use to play video: X11, DGA, SDL etc..
What player you used? Generally you get good performance with mplayer, or xine.
Andrea
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