totem-xine needs restart

wolovids ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org
Wed Dec 1 12:49:58 UTC 2004


Robert Valk Wrote: 
> Hi all,
> 	I've got DVD playback working through totem-xine (on warty) but the
> first time totem starts it doesn't show any video, just a blue screen.
> Quitting the program and restarting is enough to get proper playback.
> Sound is unaffected. It's not a show-stopper, but does anyone know why
> and how to fix it?

Here's a quote from http://xinehq.de/index.php/news :


> Workarounds:
> 
> If you are getting a blue screen in xine gui when playing a video using
> the xorg X server you need to make the following change to your
> xorg.conf file:
> 
> Section "Device"
> ... other video card settings ...
> Option "XaaNoOffscreenPixmaps"
> EndSection  

Try that.  I thought this was supposed to be fixed in xorg 6.8.x but I
guess not completely.


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wolovids




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