Re: Strange problem with KDE/X/Totem
A more irretating thing is that Fedora Core 2 worked Excelent!! The only
problem there was the TV out and a "second monitor"
I believe the concept was to get xorg-x11 as close to upstream as
possible. A lot of videocards suffered from the transition from redhat
patched to mostly upstreamed version. This driver did not give me fits
when running FC2 either. however, when installing a clean install of
FC3, it seemed to exhibit problems. I guess since the problem is here
now with the adoption of getting things fixed upstream vs. a heavily
patched version, problems need submitted to
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/
I am getting ready to search bugs for the radeon card. I'll post if I
cross a bug report that sounds similar to the problem you are having.
The first time after install, I had to enter runlevel 3 to get in the
noaccel option in the conf file. But now i boot into runlevel 5
I think that I had a mess on first boot into FC3 post-install. I did not
add the option into my file. I just kept starting X from a terminal,
avoided switching video modes and the like. The card works fine otherwise.
As a test to see if switching from the GUI to terminal, then back to GUI
had anything related to the gnome-panel, I set the upper panel to
autohide. When I switched back to the GUI, it occupied the same "real
estate" that was occupied by the hiden panel.(very narrow bar, vs normal
panel width.) I guess this might mean that the panel might have some
influence on the problem that I am getting.
As an additional test, I added the Option "NoAccel" to the xorg.conf for
my card and it stopped the problem that I got with the lockup. However,
it left the screen rather untextured and I will probably revert back to
removing the option w/ special care regarding mode switching and
changing to the terminal.
This option "NoAccel" might be influencing the problem that you are
seeing. You might try to change back to starting in runlevel 3, then
edit out the option "NoAccel" from Xorg.conf and using startx to start
the player. You might see better video performance from the video
player, however your problem with not changing back to the terminal
would not be addressed.
Regarding video players, I installed xine to play DVDs. It works fine
for me. The videos play excellent and with much detail. (No additional
options in the terminal.)
I was so angry at "fedora" so i tryed to install suse 9.2 a
couple of
days ago. it identifyed my graphics card as ati (with lost of numbers
behind it) but in suse it was playing videos, totem was working and so on.
My touchpad was also working!! (but not my mouse!)
As a test, I changed my driver to "ati" and it worked pretty much like
the radeon driver. I believe that the radeon and the "ati" driver work
together. I think the radeon driver calls the ati driver, it might be
the reverse situation though. Anyway, with the ati driver, I got the
GUI-console-GUI lockup just the same.
But why is this display almost stopping working in fedora 3 when 2 was
excelent!!!
Fedora without the ability to watch videos... hmmmm
I believe this is regression of a driver. It appears that a bug report
should get the problem on the way to a resolution.
Thanks for the input. I was helped out by trying to guide you to a
resolution. I don't know if this will help you to get videos playing
again with FC3.
Off to freedesktop.org again! - :-)
BTW - resorting to the noaccel option for long term is not a very good
solution. When I scrolled down this message, strobing was pretty bad.
Normally (for me) there is no such problem with no added entries in
xorg.conf
Jim
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