Comment 19 for bug 63051

Hey tehdon,

thanks for the vlc tip - that worked. Easy when you know how eh?

Alan

On 6/13/07, tehdon <email address hidden> wrote:
> 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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> Dragging and scrolling garbles window content (edgy beta)
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/63051
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