Re: Blank Screens, Failing Audio, and Log Files of Doom

Sun May 22 2005, Sean Kellogg wrote:

Hi, have you made any upgrades/changes to your system since
you played a dvd with your old drive?

Have you set a region on the new drive?

> The Problem:

> 1) blank screen appears that looks to be the right size for the video

Check if XV_AUTOPAINT_COLORKEY is set to 1 (with 'xvinfo').
You can use 'xvattr' to set XV_AUTOPAINT_COLORKEY to 1 if it is not.
(Or use the latest cvs of ogle.)

> 2) Sound plays for the production studio intro, according to my receiver it is 
> 5.1 surround sound, so that's a plus
> 3) Menu starts up, still a blank screen, but the sound switches to stereo (as 
> is to be expected)
> 4) Pressing 'enter' to play the movie initiates the final menu sequence, but 
> once the movie file should start playing, the sound dies completely and I'm 
> left with a blank screen...  TONS of error messages are printed to the 
> consol.

Have you upgraded the kernel/sounddrivers after you played a dvd with
your old drive?

Depending on the sounddrivers and version of X, the blank picture could
mean that AUTOPAINT is not on (fixed in cvs), or maybe the region
isn't set on the dvd (check with dvd_set). The sound problems could
be that newer sounddrivers are buggy, alsa has changed the api, ogle has
a bug that didn't trigger with older sounddrivers or problems
because the region isn't set on the dvd.

Hope this helps, otherwise I need to get some more specific info.

/Bj|rn