Hardy Heron - video and mouse pointer issue

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mlilien · #1 Post by **mlilien** » Thu May 01, 2008 10:40 am

So, I had a relatively pain free install of Hardy (I did a clean install to start again fresh), however, I have run into two problems.

1) Video playback is choppy and stutters a lot and the terminal prints out either header damaged or, more frequently, no frame! messages in kaffeine. I get good playback from all the players (movie player, mplayer, kaffeine, etc) if the player is small enough, but I used to get perfect playback in full screen mode.

2) My arrow pointer sometimes appears with black and white bars going across it. If I move it around the screen so that it changes (to text cursor or whatnot) and then back, it usually displays normally for a while and then goes back to the bars.

Thanks for any help

Marie-Anne · #2 Post by **Marie-Anne** » Fri May 02, 2008 3:53 am

This issue should be addressed in the "Operating Systems Discussions-Linux" Forum since Hardy Heron = Ubunti

mlilien · #3 Post by **mlilien** » Fri May 02, 2008 8:38 am

Sorry, I meant to put it there. I must have accidentally clicked on the wrong forum. I'll repost there.

#4 Post by **erik** » Fri May 02, 2008 8:42 am

mlilien wrote:Sorry, I meant to put it there. I must have accidentally clicked on the wrong forum. I'll repost there.

please don't repost duplicate threads get locked and/or moved out of sight. instead i've moved this thread to the linux forum.

mlilien · #5 Post by **mlilien** » Fri May 02, 2008 8:47 am

I already reposted, but if you can delete it or something, please do. Sorry.

#6 Post by **erik** » Fri May 02, 2008 8:48 am

everything's ok now. continue on.

Volker · #7 Post by **Volker** » Fri May 02, 2008 11:11 am

Choppy video is usually because xv (accelerated) output is disabled and it falls back to plain x11 (unaccelerated) output. Are you running desktop effects (compiz) on a X3100 gpu? try disabling that.

mlilien · #8 Post by **mlilien** » Fri May 02, 2008 11:41 am

I'm using the ati accelerated graphics card. I was wondering if it might be a compiz related issue, because when I run compiz from the terminal, I get:

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Checking for nVidia: not present. 
Checking for Xgl: present. 
Enabling Xgl with fglrx ATi drivers...
Attempted to unregister path (path[0] = org path[1] = freedesktop) which isn't registered
Attempted to unregister path (path[0] = org path[1] = freedesktop) which isn't registered
Attempted to unregister path (path[0] = org path[1] = freedesktop) which isn't registered
/usr/bin/compiz.real (video) - Warn: No 8 bit GLX pixmap format, disabling YV12 image format
GConf backend: There is an unsupported value at path /apps/compiz/plugins/scale/allscreens/options/initiate_edge. Settings from this path won't be read. Try to remove that value so that operation can continue properly.

Which I haven't been able to resolve yet. But everything else seems to work just fine.

K-lite · #9 Post by **K-lite** » Sat May 03, 2008 9:52 am

Hi

Let me start with saying that Ubuntu has dropped support for any ATI that is older than the Raedon 9500 card. reasons are that the drivers are too buggy to be included on the 8.04 LTS release. I have a Mobility 75 and it was detected but not working on compiz.

theres a solution for this that worked well with me but might not work with others...

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=764633

is the complete HowTo but got a bit confusing for me so i`ll be as simple as possible.

1. in the terminal paste this and run

mkdir -p ~/.config/compiz/ && echo SKIP_CHECKS=yes >> ~/.config/compiz/compiz-manager

2. alt+F2

gksudo gedit /usr/bin/compiz

it will ask for the super user password

and then just paste near the top

#SKIP_CHECKS="yes"

save and then exit

3.Finally in the terminal paste

sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager

****extra what i did is install the Compiz Fusion Icon from "Add/Remove" and select between compiz and metacity rather than typing in the terminal "compiz --replace" and "metcaity --replace".

As for your first problem till now i didn't encounter it and will try to find a solution. Hope it works for you when Compiz is working.

all the best

mlilien · #10 Post by **mlilien** » Sat May 03, 2008 12:46 pm

Compiz was working before. It just printed that message whenever I called compiz, but all the normal compiz effects were working.

However, I tried what you said anyway, but didn't make any difference.

If it helps at all, I'm running a T60p with a ATI Mobility FireGL V5250 (256 MB) graphics card.

Thanks a lot

mlilien · #11 Post by **mlilien** » Sun May 04, 2008 4:09 pm

In case anyone else is experiencing similar issues, I fixed the video problem. I must have accidentally installed xserver-xgl at some point, and that was screwing things up. Removed that, and it's all peachy.

I still have the issue with the lines on the cursor, but that's a more minor problem and I'm still looking into it.

Hardy Heron - video and mouse pointer issue

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