hamidaddin
May 20th, 2008, 06:48 AM
I have just upgraded last week from Gutsy to Hardy and had some problems related to fglrx and video.
I am using a Toshiba Satellite A100 with an ATI Mobility Radeon X1600.
Compiz was not running and when I ran fglrxinfo or any related command (i.e. glxinfo, fgl_glxgears... etc) by any normal user I was getting a "Segmentation fault" error. Using sudo all these commands were working properly.
After some searching, I found the following solution:
sudo gedit /etc/ati/ati-fglrx.sh
comment all lines (put # at the beginning of all lines in the file)
I had another problem with running videos while running Compiz.
I was getting the following error in Movie Player (totem) "The video output is in use by another application. Please close other video applications, or select another video output in the Multimedia Systems Selector."
Mplayer was giving the following error: "Error opening/initialize the selected video_out (-vo) device".
When running totem from command line I was getting this error:
** Message: Error: Could not initialise Xv output
xvimagesink.c(1333): gst_xvimagesink_get_xv_support (): /video-sink/bin0/xvimagesink0:
No port available
VLC and Real Player were working perfectly for the same video files. There was no flickering.
I found some suggestions to change the xorg.conf files and add the following lines in the Device section:
Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
Option "TexturedVideo" "on"
This fixed the above errors but now all videos and some screen savers started flickering. So my current situation is either to take out the overlay lines from xorg.conf and use VLC for all my videos, or live with the flickering problem.
I am sure this can be fixed by adjusting the configuration of totem and Mplayer without adding anything to xorg.conf
Was someone able to resolve this?
This is how the device section in my xorg.conf file look like currently:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Busid "PCI:1:0:0"
Driver "fglrx"
Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
Option "TexturedVideo" "on"
Option "XaaNoOffscreenPixmaps"
Option "UseFastTLS" "2"
Option "RenderAccel" "true"
EndSection
I am using a Toshiba Satellite A100 with an ATI Mobility Radeon X1600.
Compiz was not running and when I ran fglrxinfo or any related command (i.e. glxinfo, fgl_glxgears... etc) by any normal user I was getting a "Segmentation fault" error. Using sudo all these commands were working properly.
After some searching, I found the following solution:
sudo gedit /etc/ati/ati-fglrx.sh
comment all lines (put # at the beginning of all lines in the file)
I had another problem with running videos while running Compiz.
I was getting the following error in Movie Player (totem) "The video output is in use by another application. Please close other video applications, or select another video output in the Multimedia Systems Selector."
Mplayer was giving the following error: "Error opening/initialize the selected video_out (-vo) device".
When running totem from command line I was getting this error:
** Message: Error: Could not initialise Xv output
xvimagesink.c(1333): gst_xvimagesink_get_xv_support (): /video-sink/bin0/xvimagesink0:
No port available
VLC and Real Player were working perfectly for the same video files. There was no flickering.
I found some suggestions to change the xorg.conf files and add the following lines in the Device section:
Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
Option "TexturedVideo" "on"
This fixed the above errors but now all videos and some screen savers started flickering. So my current situation is either to take out the overlay lines from xorg.conf and use VLC for all my videos, or live with the flickering problem.
I am sure this can be fixed by adjusting the configuration of totem and Mplayer without adding anything to xorg.conf
Was someone able to resolve this?
This is how the device section in my xorg.conf file look like currently:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Busid "PCI:1:0:0"
Driver "fglrx"
Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
Option "TexturedVideo" "on"
Option "XaaNoOffscreenPixmaps"
Option "UseFastTLS" "2"
Option "RenderAccel" "true"
EndSection