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| 06:15.23 | Nalle_ | Morning |
| 07:52.54 | simonlnu | hey |
| 08:06.48 | Nalle_ | Heya simon |
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| 11:46.37 | tim_flatus | I can see I've really made a rod for my back attempting to install wheezy on this here 12" powerbook g4. This takes me back to when I first started with Debian ... |
| 13:42.06 | tim_flatus | Now I'm really confused - This laptop has a GeForce Go 5200 on board, which I'm running with nouveau.noaccel=1 - but I just tried glxgears and it works? Around 63 FPS.I have to confess my brain is fried from reading too many man and help pages. Can anyone help with this - or am I basically on my own? |
| 13:42.29 | tim_flatus | What I really want to do is get video payback working. |
| 13:44.35 | tim_flatus | VLC will show me the first frame of any video (except flash, naturally) but not play it. |
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| 16:12.50 | p8m | tim_flatus: It's been a while since I've used VLC but it should have video output preferences. Try overriding the defaults. Nouveau should support Xv, for example |
| 16:21.05 | tim_flatus | p8m: ah thanks. I started to look at that, but no joy so far. |
| 16:21.34 | tim_flatus | I've had a singluarly unproductive day today. :( |
| 16:22.29 | p8m | glxgears will work even without 3d acceleration. It will be rendered with mesa's software renderer |
| 16:23.06 | tim_flatus | Right. 60 FPS isn't bad for software rendering. |
| 16:23.54 | tim_flatus | I remember reading somewhere that turning 3d acceleration off affects video playback - which I don't entirely understand. |
| 16:24.31 | tim_flatus | Wish I could remember where ... I've read so much in the last 24, my eyeballs are falling out. |
| 16:25.48 | p8m | Nouveau Xv uses the 3d engine of the cards. Maybe disabling acceleration affects that? |
| 16:25.59 | p8m | What did you set nouveau.noaccel=1 ? |
| 16:26.15 | tim_flatus | yes |
| 16:26.36 | p8m | er, Why did you set nouveau.noaccel=1 ? |
| 16:26.55 | tim_flatus | It's the workaround to get gtk to display properly. |
| 16:27.34 | p8m | So all of the output options in vlc have the same result: a single frozen frame? |
| 16:27.44 | tim_flatus | I'm trying to construct an xorg.conf by hand, but no joy so far. |
| 16:28.07 | tim_flatus | I haven't tried all the output options yet. |
| 16:28.43 | tim_flatus | I just turned the laptop off for a bit before it burns a hole in something ... |
| 16:31.17 | tim_flatus | Xorg -configure won't work on this card. I think I need to disable phantom outputs, but I'm not really sure how to do it. |
| 16:32.59 | tim_flatus | Ooh the xv output did something - I got sound but no picture |
| 16:33.44 | tim_flatus | and an error message :) |
| 16:33.59 | tim_flatus | video output creation failed |
| 16:34.10 | tim_flatus | that's something at least |
| 16:35.38 | tim_flatus | ascii art output works - momentarily then it crashed. |
| 16:38.56 | tim_flatus | I'll stop being so verbose for a moment ... |
| 16:44.16 | tim_flatus | p8m thanks for responding - the moral support is well apreciated. :) |
| 16:50.13 | tim_flatus | OK. glx, X11 and video mem give frozen 1st frame + sound |
| 16:50.29 | tim_flatus | The other modes fail to create video, but also play sound. |
| 16:51.10 | tim_flatus | avcodec decoder error |
| 16:51.49 | tim_flatus | Well, at least that's an error message to google. |
| 17:06.52 | tim_flatus | ... the same half a dozen posts that I've already read several times ... |
| 17:11.30 | tim_flatus | The answer appears to be - get a working xorg.conf. |
| 17:15.24 | tim_flatus | I haven't yet found any evidence that anybody has really managed to get round this particular problem. Ah well - I'll give it another shot tomorrow. |
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