Odd video playback problem on IBM A21p

[Irvine Short]

Irvine Short wrote:
> I have X 4.3 and KDE 3.2 working fine on 4.10 from the 4.10 CD.
> 
> However both mplayer and vlc mess up badly - I get the left hand half of 
> the video stetched to full width for both. The sound is really choppy too.

Well, a spot more googling revelaed that this happens too under Linux 
for some folks. It was said to be a bug in the accellerated X driver for 
  ATI chipsets. I upgraded X to 4.4 and now all is well. The sound is OK 
for vlc when I use it with artsdsp but everything is a touch mangled 
when I put it in full screen mode.

Will keep you all posted.

Thought - this mailing list seems awful quiet. Does this mean that most 
folks have little trouble using FreeBSD on their laptops or that not 
many people try it?  It hasn't been plain sailing so far compared to 
desktops for me and I've been using FreeBSD for years & years.

-- Irvine