Re: ogle on laptop

Wed Jul 14 2004, Chris Jackson wrote:
> I've got a Dell Inspiron 2500 with Red Hat 9.0 using the built in GUI and I
> got all the rpms for the newest versions of all things ogle-involved
> installed without a hitch and everything works mostly alright.  I've got
> sound and video, but the video is weirdly skewed.  It's an Intel 815e laptop
> monitor.  What happens is that there's a big blue bar down the middle, and
> the video is wrapped weirdly so what should be on the left side is on the
> right and the right side is on the left.  

Yeah, this is a problem with the graphic card driver.  Particulary sometjing
to do with Xvideo (Xv).  Changing the resolution, refresh rate and/or color
depth are things that are known work around (for some cards/drivers).
However as this is a laptop you might not be able to change the resolution
or refresh rate.  You could give the color deoth thing a try perhaps.

A newer version of XFree86 (or Xorg) or just the i815 driver might fix it
for you.  

Though if you are hesitant to even change your config file, I can't really
recomend trying those things either.

Other things to try
Moving and/or resizing the video window.
Ctrl-Atl-[+-] to change resolution while playing, if possible.

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Håkan Hjort