I took her shopping to the wrentham outlets…even better
It was not the cable either…tried a different cable…and loaded up with a suse live cd to see if it was anything hardware related instead of settings. I could not figure it out so guess what. I reinstalled suse (on top of the ubuntu I had just installed…didnt like it and same problems if not worse).
This time running gnome desktop. I managed to get things running much faster this time (after 500 times of doing them over and over I learned…also been following your steps ).
Now I have desktop effects, dual monitor, youtube videos play fullscreen but crash sometimes when escaping fullscreen (still trying to figure that out), HOWEVER, problem still remains with video being jumpy or flashing when I try to play videos and have desktop effects enabled. Now that I have gnome I found the system monitor utility so when I get home, I will post my findings. Do you have any issues with the youtube videos in fullscreen? Any ideas on that? Also, is there a way to save the whole system configuration as is now (sort of like when I save the xorg.conf file) so if any setting…i.e. like the internet one goes…I just restore the GLOBAL settings. It’s working ok now with codecs, dual screen and even though i can do the whole thing in less than a couple of hours…I don’t want to do it again.
If all else fails I think I will go back to my ATI X800 256MB AGP card. I think it may be more compatible than the VISONTEK ATI HD2600 512MB AGP card. In linux do I just uninstall the ati drivers, power down, replace card and redo the driver part like in windows?
I don’t normally play flash fullscreen, if I do I download them and use
smplayer.
It may be an AGP issue, would be interesting to see how the other card
performs. Since they are both ATI cards it should just work with a
power down and replace but I don’t have ATI cards (except on my solaris
SPARC machines) maybe you will need to run through the ATI
configuration routine again.
Will be interested to see some results from cpu checks etc.
There is CPU and Memory when running video with desktop effects enabled. LEt me know what else you need. What do you use to download youtube videos? Firefox plugin?
Did some testing with the settings of MPlayer and managed to get smooth playback by selecting the X11 (XImage/Shm) driver from the video settings. Most of the others wouldn’t play the video and the default one was xv X11/Xv which is choppy. The issue now is that the video wont go higher than 640x480 (estimate) even if I select fullscreen (black background around same size video image). SO it IS a driver issue and some setting. I’ll see if I am in the mood to try the other video card :P. In the mean time i’m looking forward to any feedback on something I could try.
P.S. If it wasn’t for the girlfriend…I would be going between PS3 and PC1 to PC4 (3 desktops and one laptop). Even trying to get Suse on PS3 working for webcam, youtube videos, etc
P.S.2 KMPlayer with same video output can play with maximized window…but still can’t do fullscreen. So far all my tests are random changing of settings so it would be great if someone could figure out the problem based on my failures and success’s and help me out… malcomlewis?
Hi
OK, I just did a similar test, running a fullscreen flash video,
rotating the cube etc and no choppy-ness, cpu got to 80%, plus I have a
sphere with gears running when I rotate.
I think it’s the AGP bus, can you do any BIOS tweaks?
Also can you try a test with the ati version of glxgears (it’s fl
something…??)
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.0 x86 Kernel 2.6.25.18-0.2-default
up 1:36, 4 users, load average: 0.13, 0.14, 0.22
GPU GeForce 6600 TE/6200 TE - Driver Version: 177.80
What bios tweaks do you recommend? I have only tried the ones recommended on the wiki for ATI installation!
I have the fglrx drivers. Its part of the Ati driver install and without it I had lots of problems (animation effects couldnt be enabled, moving of windows was jumpy, scrolling through webpages was impossible). So these drivers are my best option.
From the tests I did, I would assume the best approach is to tweak some output driver for the video…seeing as how different drivers have different response. I just have no idea which one and can’t find any info in forum or google.
Are you the only one who reads peoples posts and replies :P? I thought the linux community was large…
Thanx for all the help malcomlewis…I appreciate you trying to help me!!!
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