Everything is BLACK... RedHat 7.0, w/- XFree 4.1, ATI Rage Mob & GLibC 2.2

[nick lidakis]

Hamish Marson wrote:

> Hi all.
>
> Sorry to xpost, but I just can't get the video to be stable using
> 0.2.82...
>
> I have Redhat (Or originally redhat) 7.0, with XFree 4.1, glibc 2.2.3,
> on an IBM Thinkpad A20p. The video is an ATI Rage Mobility 128. SDL
> games such as Alpha Centauri work fine using SDL, but Videolan (vlc)
> just displays a black picture...
>
> I thought I'd discovered a fix by openeing the preferences & setting the
> gamma to 5.0 then hitting apply before trying to play the DVD, but when
> I got home (All excited) I discovered it had reverted back to no video
> again... The window appears to be working OK, except the gamma just
> seems to be getting ignored (Almost always) and just setting all the
> pixels to 0...
>
> Does anyone else have this problem? I've tried changing the default
> gamma in config.h to 5.0, no changes... It's almost like something is
> over-writing it...
>
> --
>
> I don't suffer from Insanity...
>         I enjoy every minute of it...

Use xvideo with this chipset, dvd playback is superb and is supported in
Xfree 4.0.x and 4.1.x.