31 Dec
2003
31 Dec
'03
1:07 p.m.
I've just wiped my hard disk installation of Knoppix and installed Debian Stable then upgraded to unstable with a 2.4.18 kernel.
In Knoppix I used mplayer with the GUI front end to play DVDs and got excellent results for an 800Mhz, 256Mb computer with an ATI Rage 128 graphics card. Mplayer was using the xv output and I think XFree86 was using the ati driver for the graphics card.
In Debian X won't start with the ati driver so I'm using the vesa driver. When I play DVDs the X11 video output manages to play a DVD but very poor quality. the xvidix and xv video outputs both do nothing at all.
What should I try next?
Thanks tola ^/.
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