From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 28 08:28:24 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7410C16A4CE for ; Tue, 28 Sep 2004 08:28:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: from fling.sanbi.ac.za (fling.sanbi.ac.za [196.38.142.119]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10AD643D54 for ; Tue, 28 Sep 2004 08:28:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from irvine@sanbi.ac.za) Received: from psytrance.egenetics.com ([196.38.142.87]) by fling.sanbi.ac.za with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 1CCDLP-000GMs-00; Tue, 28 Sep 2004 10:28:19 +0200 Message-ID: <415920A3.80503@sanbi.ac.za> Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 10:28:19 +0200 From: Irvine Short Organization: SANBI User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7 (X11/20040701) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: irvine@sanbi.ac.za References: <4157DB2A.9050504@sanbi.ac.za> In-Reply-To: <4157DB2A.9050504@sanbi.ac.za> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Odd video playback problem on IBM A21p X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: irvine@sanbi.ac.za List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 08:28:24 -0000 Irvine Short wrote: > I have X 4.3 and KDE 3.2 working fine on 4.10 from the 4.10 CD. > > However both mplayer and vlc mess up badly - I get the left hand half of > the video stetched to full width for both. The sound is really choppy too. Well, a spot more googling revelaed that this happens too under Linux for some folks. It was said to be a bug in the accellerated X driver for ATI chipsets. I upgraded X to 4.4 and now all is well. The sound is OK for vlc when I use it with artsdsp but everything is a touch mangled when I put it in full screen mode. Will keep you all posted. Thought - this mailing list seems awful quiet. Does this mean that most folks have little trouble using FreeBSD on their laptops or that not many people try it? It hasn't been plain sailing so far compared to desktops for me and I've been using FreeBSD for years & years. -- Irvine