On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Matt Graham
<danceswithcrows@usa.net> wrote:
From: Mark Phillips <mark@phillipsmarketing.biz>
> On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Jim March <
1.jim.march@gmail.com> wrote:
>> It looks to me like video playback is sucking hard - esp. if Youtube
> Not sure how to check this
Post the output of "/sbin/lspci | grep VGA"
beagle:/home/mark# lspci |grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV100 QY [Radeon 7000/VE]
beagle:/home/mark#
as well as the output of "grep
Driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf".
beagle:/home/mark# grep Driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf.20070513113236
Driver "kbd"
Driver "mouse"
Driver "ati"
beagle:/home/mark#
You may want to put your xorg.conf file up
somewhere and post a link to the mailing list so others can take a look.
>> What happens when you run glxgears at the command line?
> It ran ok
> mark@beagle:~$ glxgears
> 49 frames in 5.1 seconds = 9.638 FPS
That's NOT "ok". It's downright horrible, but if you were running over ssh
-X, that's to be expected. Very little hardware acceleration can happen when
you're running X11 over a network instead of directly.
>> Do you have the latest flash player?
> Probably not....don't use flash much.
Which version is it? That may be important.
flash version 10
> I actually think there is an input problem. When I am connected through
> skype to another computer, the audio works fine and I can see the other
> person without any problem. No crashes. When I tell skype to turn on my
> camera, it does not turn on (no red light) and just crashes.
What (if anything) does "dmesg | tail -n40" say after a crash like that?
Nothing related to the crash. The only skype related message is
process `skype1' is using obsolete setsockopt SO_BSDCOMPAT
which appears before the crash.
The
first thing I'd try in this situation is to replace the Debian-patched kernel
with a vanilla kernel, but I've just seen more weird bugs in distro-patched
kernels than in the vanilla ones. Replacing a kernel is also a bit
intimidating if you've never done it before.
Seems a little over kill? I have skype running on Debian testing on another machine (but it is AMD64, but skype only runs on 32 bit).
One really strange thing happened. I ssh -X into that box and started skype from that box. I then called my box, which was also running skype. The video worked just fine from the remote box (where it always crashed before). I had a nice 2 way video chat with myself. Maybe a timing thing?
Thanks
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