Kaffeine playback jerky

[david]

On Tuesday 02 September 2008 10:35:34 am Billie Walsh wrote:
> Knapp wrote:
> >>> Here Billie, Add Option "VideoOverlay" "on"  to your xorg.conf file.
> >>> Here is an example of mine:
> >>>
> >>> Section "Device"
> >>>         Identifier      "Configured Video Device"
> >>>         Option          "VideoOverlay"  "on"
> >>>         Driver          "fglrx"
> >>>
> >>> Then restart your X server or reboot your computer. You shouldn't have
> >>> any choppy video now.
> >>
> >> This just gets weirder and weirder. Here is my section of
> >> etc/x11/xorg.conf
> >>
> >> Section "Device"
> >>    Identifier    "Configured Video Device"
> >> EndSection
> >>
> >> Thats all there is.
> >
> > It seems to be that Linux is switching over to totally auto configure
> > instead of using configure files. I don't KNOW this but it seems to be
> > what is happening. My xorg.conf was blank like that too but I had to
> > add a lot. Just be sure to make a backup of the original and then play
> > with it. Did you try David's idea?
>
> I haven't had a chance to try his suggestion yet. I was up half the
> night with trashed video settings. *<]:oD
>
> First I made sure the fglrx drivers were all in place. Then I went
> through System Settings to set the video driver to fglrx. Bad idea!!
> After restarting all I could get was 800x600 resolution. System settings
> couldn't "fix" it. Long story short, after messing with it for a couple
> hours I finally opened a terminal and "sudo dolphin". Deleted all but
> one known good version of xorg.conf from an earlier setup, renamed it
> "xorg.conf", renamed the "falback" conf to keep it from running, crossed
> my fingers and restarted. Back to 1280x1024 where it belongs. One part
> lucky, one part stupid.

How did you check for the fglrx drivers?

did you use the command fgl_glxgears?

also how did you install the drivers?

Did you use the hardware drivers manager?

I remember not too long ago, I had this same problem. If I recall correctly I 
solved it by logging into safe settings starting X and changing things from 
there, from then on I could change it under a normal session even after 
re-installing a couple times.


-- 
David M.