Comment 17 for bug 63051

I'm confused. Balaji, are you saying that we should be using the nVidia
driver for our Trident XP4/32m chipsets? I would suspect that if you indeed
tried that then xorg, upon initialization, would notice a problem, and fall
back to the VESA driver. I suspect that we are talking apples vs igneous
rocks here. But, to answer the previous question in a bit more depth:

In order to get actual video playback from VLC you need to change the output
module to x11. The way you do this is to:

Execute vlc in your normal fashion. I would press alt-f2 and type in vlc
myself, so that it loads faster.
Then open Settings, then select Preferences, which should give you a new
window titled Preferences. Expand the Video section and then expand the Output
Modules subsection, then select it. Confirm that there is an X11 subsection
under the Output Modules subsection in the panel on the left. On the lower
right, you should see an Advanced Options select box, select it, because
that's us baby, advanced.
This should allow you to choose your Video Output Module. You want to
select X11 Video Output. Click Save, then exit out of VLC and reload to
make sure that the updated configuration takes over.

Let me know how it works. By the way, if anyone has any Tecra M1 specific
questions, feel free to email me.

YMMV
Donald Nixon

On 6/12/07, Balaji <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> Actually, I have solved the problem in a different way. I found that my
> windows get garbled upon scrolling because of the Video driver. When I
> installed the nVIDIA driver for Ubuntu, the problem was fixed. Initially,
> I
> was using envy from Alberto Milone's website to download his drivers. Ever
> since I have upgraded to Fiesty Fawn this problem I have used the Ubuntu
> nVIDIA driver in the repositories and it works just fine.
>
> Thanks,
> Balaji
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