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Weird video problem ATI Mobility 9600 on Hardy

Published by: webmaster 2009-01-09

  • XBMC is working great on my main computer however I thought I'd give it a shot on my IBM T42 Laptop. Everything builds and runs fine, however, when I play videos, this is what happens, http://www.rpi.edu/~kerstd/Screenshot-1.png . This is with an ATI Mobility 9600 with the ATI FGLRX Driver in Ubuntu Hardy 8.04. Any ideas? Thanks.

    Dustin


  • Using the EnvyNG and installing the ATI driver resulted in the same behavior. Mplayer can still play the video fine using -vo gl or -vo gl2. Ubuntu Hardy has been working fine on my other computer (Geforce 7100 IGP). I guess I'll give Gutsy a shot and wait until Hardy is released. Any other ideas though? I've tried enable/disabling composite, changing video scaling method, enabling/disabling vsync.


  • Mplayer with the -vo gl tag plays the video fine.


  • Well one thing you could try is going fullscreen and try to do a screenshot from XBMC by pressing printscreen. Should show if it's XBMC or driver related


  • Both of the above work fine for every video I have tested. Strange.


  • Well neither mplayer or totem doesn't use OpenGL so its no reference :)
    You could force mplayer to use opengl and try that (don't remember the command) and which driver did you use, envy or the ones from ubuntu?


  • mplayer -vo gl or -vo gl2
    Is the command.

    Still I must say that Hardy is very shaky and not supported. Aswell with ati.


  • I think it's the -xv tag, I'll try it.I used whatever fglrx driver that comes with an up to date Hardy install as of today via the Ubuntu repositories.


  • same identical problem here withato radeon xpress 1100 and ubuntu i386 with r12377 and fglrx drivers from ubuntu repositories... as i've got compiz active, as i had some problems with mythtv before, i tried to disable it too, but no way... i tried to change the renderer and the video size, but still no change in the behaviour.
    of course, all is working well on another pc running ubuntu amd64 but with a nvidia card... maybe xbmc doesn't like to be run on amd laptops? :)


  • Just a quick note, playing videos in mplayer or totem does not exhibit this behavior, only XBMC.


  • it looks abit like my issues when I didn't have tripplebuffer, but just a little.
    Still I'd suggest too try the Envy package and see if it's different.
    And try gutsy :)


  • Yeah, it's definitely related to the new ATI drivers. I am just going to revert back to gutsy as I don't even want to mess with getting the older ATI drivers working on Hardy. Thanks for pointing me to that thread, same exact problem.

    Dustin


  • As with -vo xv


  • Screenshots from within XBMC in fullscreen mode exhibit the same behavior.


  • Very interesting Succo, it's not that big of a deal as I am just using my laptop to test new builds, but I would like to find out what is causing this problem. By the way, my laptop is a T42 with a 1.8ghz Pentium M.


  • Looks like the same problem with the ATI drivers as here : http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=30185&page=3
    Haven't tried Hardy yet, but you can try to fix it the same way I did in Gutsy.





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