Comment 14 for bug 63051

The above workarounds worked for me I'm glad to say, however, can
other people confirm that video playback still doesn't work?

When attempting to play video (in vlc for example) I just get a blue
screen, interestingly though video from youtube etc. (ie. flash based)
works fine.

Thanks,

Alan

On 6/8/07, tehdon <email address hidden> wrote:
> There is no fix. It is a workaround, and it's posted a few comments up. The default "Accelmethod" of EXA in the xorg.conf causes the trident driver to break, you must replace the "Accelmethod" with XAA. I also download the EXPERIMENTAL or UNSTABLE trident driver from the Debian repositories and then I unpack the deb, and copy the trident_drv.so over the default one, just for good measure. I sent Mark a step by step workaround. Here is the email:
> -------------EMAIL---------------------
> Try this:
>
> I'm including two files, one is my xorg.conf file, and the other is
> the experimental trident driver. Download both of these to a suitable
> location, then execute the following commands in a terminal in order:
>
> cd <to the directory you downloaded to>
> sudo cp /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/trident_drv.so
> /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/trident.old
> sudo cp ./trident_drv.so /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/trident_drv.so
> sudo mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.old
> sudo cp ./xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> xinit
>
> Let me know if it works for you.
>
> Donald
> ----------------EMAIL---------------------
>
> The file was just the trident_drv.so that I unpacked from the xserver-
> xorg-video-trident driver from the Debian repoisitory. You can get the
> BINARY from here :
>
> http://packages.debian.org/cgi-
> bin/download.pl?arch=i386&file=pool%2Fmain%2Fx%2Fxserver-xorg-video-
> trident%2Fxserver-xorg-video-
> trident_1.2.3-1_i386.deb&md5sum=ca10e27dd0595cf9024adf53145d671a&arch=i386&type=main
>
> YOU MUST NOT ATTEMPT TO INSTALL THIS FILE. YOU MUST UNPACK THIS FILE
> AND MANUALLY COPY THE TRIDENT_DRV.SO FILE OR YOU WILL BREAK YOUR XORG
> CONFIG. To unpack the xserver-xorg-video-trident driver file, you must
> 'ar -x xserver-xorg-video-trident.deb' This will yield two tar.gz
> files. Inside of one of these files is the trident_drv.so file you
> need.
>
> The xorg.conf file is just a vanilla xorg.conf file with the
> aforementioned changes.
>
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