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

[Hamish Marson]

Michael Flohr wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have the same notebook, an A20p.
> DVD playback is just gorgeous (much better colors and crispiness of
> the picture than WinDVD, in my opinion), and performance is now at
> around 15% CPU.
> I use XFree 4.0.1 (yes, that is an old version, but it works very
> fine with me) with the r128_drv.o module out from CVS. Xvideo and SDL
> work fine. I also run at 24bpp which does not cause much of a problem
> with vlc - the only thing which occasionally is slightly annoying is
> that some colors of other windows get messed up due to overlay.
> I run SuSE 7.0 with the old glib 2.1 (I think) but I don't think
> that the problem lies there.
> Could it be that you use vlc successfully, then suspend your A20p,
> go home, resume your notebook and things are messed up? Although I
> have now, after some time, managed to get quite a stable suspend/resume,
> I have the feeling that it is not (yet) perfectly safe.
> If the answer to the above question is yes, simply try to restart
> the X server after resume and check whether the problem persists.
> Otherwise, forget about this email.
>

What do you know... You hit it on the head... I've manged to replicate it
several times now... The vlc works fine straight after starting X, but not
after a suspend/resume... Must be something that needs fixing in the xvideo
code...

>
> Michael

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