Just a note, newer versions of VLC do not work on my older hardware systems, downgrading VLC worked. My newer systems have had no issues.<div><br></div><div>I'm mobile right now so don't have specific hardware or versions handy, also interesting is it was exactly the same when I booted into Windows.</div>
<div><br></div><div>--j<span></span><br><div><br></div><div><br><br>On Saturday, November 3, 2012, gregrwm wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">vlc has always "just worked" for me before (including on maya *before* i did an apt-get upgrade!) so perhaps i am ignorant of display hardware issues. below are what's shown by maya->systeminfo->display, and lsmod, do those tell you anything?<br>
<br>maya->systeminfo->display<br>-Display-<br>Resolution : 1024x768 pixels<br>Vendor : The X.Org Foundation<br>Version : 1.11.3<br>-Monitors-<br>Monitor 0 : 1024x768 pixels<br>-Extensions-<br>
BIG-REQUESTS<br>Composite<br>DAMAGE<br>DOUBLE-BUFFER<br>DPMS<br>DRI2<br>GLX<br>Generic Event Extension<br>MIT-SCREEN-SAVER<br>MIT-SHM<br>RANDR<br>RECORD<br>RENDER<br>SECURITY<br>SGI-GLX<br>SHAPE<br>SYNC<br>X-Resource<br>
XC-MISC<br>
XFIXES<br>XFree86-DGA<br>XFree86-VidModeExtension<br>XINERAMA<br>XInputExtension<br>XKEYBOARD<br>XTEST<br>XVideo<br>-OpenGL-<br>Vendor : Tungsten Graphics, Inc<br>Renderer : Mesa DRI Intel(R) 915G x86/MMX/SSE2<br>
Version : 1.4 Mesa 8.0.4<br>Direct Rendering : Yes<br><br>$ lsmod|sort<br> 3c59x 37445 0 <br> binfmt_misc 17292 1 <br> bluetooth 158438 10 rfcomm,bnep<br> bnep 17830 2 <br>
btrfs 638208 0 <br> dm_crypt 22528 0 <br> dm_log 18193 3 dm_raid45,dm_mirror,dm_region_hash<br> dm_mirror 21822 0 <br> dm_multipath 22710 0 <br> dm_raid45 76451 0 <br>
dm_region_hash 16065 1 dm_mirror<br> e100 36289 0 <br> fat 55605 1 vfat<br> floppy 60310 0 <br> hid 77367 2 hid_a4tech,usbhid<br> hid_a4tech 12590 0 <br>
i2c_piix4 13093 0 <br> isofs 39553 1 <br> jfs 175085 0 <br> libcrc32c 12543 1 btrfs<br> lp 17455 0 <br> mac_hid 13077 0 <br>
Module Size Used by<br> nls_utf8 12493 1 <br> overlayfs 27511 1 <br> parport 40930 3 ppdev,parport_pc,lp<br> parport_pc 32114 1 <br> ppdev 12849 0 <br>
psmouse 87140 0 <br> reiserfs 230896 0 <br> rfcomm 38139 4 <br> serio_raw 13027 0 <br> shpchp 32325 0 <br> snd 62064 15 snd_es18xx,snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib,snd_hwdep,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq<br>
snd_es18xx 34433 3 <br> snd_hwdep 13276 1 snd_opl3_lib<br> snd_mpu401_uart 13865 1 snd_es18xx<br> snd_opl3_lib 18863 1 snd_es18xx<br> snd_page_alloc 14115 1 snd_pcm<br>
snd_pcm 80845 1 snd_es18xx<br> snd_rawmidi 25424 2 snd_mpu401_uart,snd_seq_midi<br> snd_seq 51567 2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event<br> snd_seq_device 14172 4 snd_opl3_lib,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq<br>
snd_seq_midi 13132 0 <br> snd_seq_midi_event 14475 1 snd_seq_midi<br> snd_timer 28931 3 snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib,snd_seq<br> soundcore 14635 1 snd<br> squashfs 36095 1 <br>
tulip 52487 0 <br> usbhid 41906 0 <br> vfat 17308 0 <br> xfs 747494 0 <br> xor 25987 1 dm_raid45<br> zlib_deflate 26622 1 btrfs
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