Re: black screen

 >|I'd try rebooting, changing resoultion (though since it's a laptop don't think
 >|this applies), checking if the external display is on/off, resizing the video
 >|window, try some other Xv application (xvtest, mplayer...).

I upgraded the system to Fedora Core 3 and now ogle works (without a
black screen!). 

Bob T.