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Re: Can't get XVideo to work on squeeze



On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 17:25:50 +0200, Tuxoholic wrote:

> Looks like you are just missing the small firmware blob for the rs780
> chipset - you'll find it in the nonfree squeeze repository:
> 
> http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/firmware-linux-nonfree
> 
> *) add "non-free" to your repository lines in /etc/apt/sources.list *)
> aptitude update && aptitude install firmware-linux-nonfree
> 
> Restart X, you'll notice in Xorg.0.log the small firmware binary for
> rs780 chipsets is mentioned as now being loaded, xv should be working
> then.

Tuxoholic, you are a star!
Thank you so much for your knowledgeable and gracious help.

Walter



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