Upgrading the video and/or monitor should have no effect on Xine, it uses the X and GL libs to draw to screen, so it's blissfully unaware of the hardware behind that. As far as the cursor trails, it's fairly likely that what you're experiencing is a result of a problem in the video driver (in which case an upgrade to the latest might help). It could also be an X setting, most probably the latency or delay between cursor refreshes. I've seen similar problems in many environments (incl. Windows), and it's almost always a problem with the video driver not performing it's xor/bitblt operation correctly. ==Joseph++ Eric "Shubes" wrote: > Thanks again for all the pointers, Joseph. I haven't gotten around to > trying them yet. > > I just thought of something else though that is probably a contributing > factor (I should have made this connection before now). I upgraded the > video card and monitor on my system a month or two ago, so I'm guessing > that the graphics card/monitor driver/settings is probably the culprit. > Would re-installing xine or something possibly correct the problem? > > > BTW, I have another problem with my video that I've simply been living > with for the time being. Let me see if I can explain it. > > First of all, when I'm in a terminal window, everything is hunky dory. > However, when I'm in a gui window (like Thunderbird Composer, for > instance), pressing the arrow keys leaves 'trails' of the cursor > (blinking vertical bar) when I move around the text. Then, when I begin > typing again with 'normal' characters, the 'trails' go away. > > Is this likely a problem with my graphics configuration? > > The video card is EVGA e-GeForce 6200 (nvidia) AGP. lcpci shows: > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 6200 (rev > a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) > Subsystem: eVga.com. Corp. Unknown device a341 > Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64 > Memory at ce000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] > Memory at b0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] > Memory at cd000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] > Expansion ROM at cfee0000 [disabled] [size=128K] > Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2 > Capabilities: [44] AGP version 3.0 > > xorg.conf settings are: > Section "ServerLayout" > Identifier "single head configuration" > Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 > InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" > InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" > EndSection > > Section "Files" > FontPath "unix/:7100" > EndSection > > Section "Module" > Load "dbe" > Load "extmod" > Load "fbdevhw" > Load "glx" > Load "record" > Load "freetype" > Load "type1" > Load "dri" > EndSection > > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Keyboard0" > Driver "kbd" > Option "XkbModel" "pc105" > Option "XkbLayout" "us" > EndSection > > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Mouse0" > Driver "mouse" > Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" > Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" > Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" > Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes" > EndSection > > Section "Monitor" > Identifier "Monitor0" > VendorName "ViewSonic" > ModelName "VA2012wSERIE" > DisplaySize 430 270 > HorizSync 30.0 - 94.0 > VertRefresh 50.0 - 75.0 > Option "dpms" > EndSection > > Section "Device" > Identifier "Videocard0" > Driver "nv" > VendorName "EVGA" > BoardName "nVidia Corporation GeForce 6200" > EndSection > > Section "Screen" > Identifier "Screen0" > Device "Videocard0" > Monitor "Monitor0" > DefaultDepth 24 > SubSection "Display" > Viewport 0 0 > Depth 16 > Modes "800x600" "640x480" > EndSubSection > SubSection "Display" > Viewport 0 0 > Depth 24 > Modes "1680x1050" "1280x800" > EndSubSection > EndSection > > Section "DRI" > Group 0 > Mode 0666 > EndSection > > > TIA for any (more) pointers. > > > Joseph Sinclair wrote: >> Start with VLC, if you can get the videos to play in VLC, then the >> codecs are available, they just aren't setup in Xine. >> >> Check that the upgrade didn't replace the Xine renderer with GStreamer >> or something similar. Sometimes that happens. If it did, you need to >> reinstall all of the Xine support packages. >> >> If Xine appears to be installed and selected as the default rendering >> library, then check that you're not using XGL/AIGLX, since the Win32 >> codecs don't currently work correctly in that environment. >> >> Try downloading the very latest FFMPEG library (compile it from CVS, >> using the stable mark, not the daily snapshot). This adds a LOT more >> codec support than the last released version, and it doesn't rely on >> Win32 DLL files. >> >> Try installing the latest MPlayer and the MPlayer codecs package, even >> if Xine doesn't work, this should (again, as long as you're not >> running XGL or AIGLX). >> >> Hope that helps, >> ==Joseph++ >> >> Eric "Shubes" wrote: >>> Thanks for the ideas, Joseph. >>> >>> I tried playing some mpeg and wmv files from '03 and they don't play >>> either. >>> What next? >>> >>> Joseph Sinclair wrote: >>>> It's more likely that the new videos use new WMV codecs or require a >>>> "phone-home" call to play. WMV an "evolving" format, meaning that MS >>>> modifies it every 6 months or so to ensure it won't be reliably >>>> playable on any platform except Windows. The modifications are >>>> generally nothing more than a new FourCC, a slight packet header >>>> change, and some additional options for restricting content, but they >>>> don't play on the old codecs, so you have to "upgrade" a Windows >>>> machine, then pull in the new codec DLL to get it to play. If the >>>> videos require a "Phone Home" check, they won't play anywhere except >>>> Windows, no matter what you do. >>>> >>>> Eric "Shubes" wrote: >>>>> I used to have xine set up on FC5 working nicely. I had to install the >>>>> wmv codecs for it to work. >>>>> >>>>> Some time ago I noticed that wmv files weren't showing video any more. >>>>> Not a big deal, as I only use it to view an occasional email >>>>> attachment >>>>> now and then. >>>>> >>>>> wmv files seem to play ok, no errors that I see, audio plays, just no >>>>> video. I'm guessing that a FC5 upgrade might have broken something. >>>>> Any >>>>> ideas what direction to look for a fix? >>>> --------------------------------------------------- > > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss