RE: [xine-user] cvs / nvidia / shm failures

[Mark C. <mp...@st...>]

On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:

> Try running xinecheck from the misc directory of xine-ui.
> I suspect that maybe mtrr is not enabled in your kernel or something like
> that.
> xinecheck does a lot of checks, and might come up with something useful.
> Cheers
> James

xine-check output looks fine (other than having usr/bin in my path 
twice).  dvd drive is ide-scsi emulated, dma is enabled for it. (not 
that xine post jan20 is getting that far):

# ./xine-check  
Please be patient, this script may take a while to run...
[OUCH!!] You're running me with root permissions?
         You should definitely run xine as normal user, not root. Running it as
         root will expose you to some severe security issues.
         This script should run as the same user that you would use to run
         xine. If you run me as root (as you currently are), I cannot check
         if your real-life user has sufficient permissions...
         Unless you want to recheck something with root permissions, you should
         abort me now (press Ctrl-C) and run me from your usual account.
         press <enter> to continue...

[ good ] you're using Linux, doing specific tests
[ good ] looks like you have a /proc filesystem mounted.
[ good ] You seem to have a reasonable kernel version (2.4.17-1p)
[ good ] intel compatible processor, checking MTRR support
[ good ] you have MTRR support and there are some ranges set.
[ good ] found the player at /usr/bin/xine
[ hint ] multiple xine executables found in your PATH
         I have found more than one occurance of 'xine' in your PATH:
         /usr/bin/xine
/usr/bin/xine
         You have probably installed xine-ui more than once, or the directory
         where you have installed xine occurs more than once in your PATH.
         Technically, this is not really a problem, but it's probably
         somewhat confusing, as it's not obvious, which xine you're using.
         You should probably uninstall the copies that you don't use...
         Further tests assume, you're using /usr/bin/xine
         press <enter> to continue...

[ hint ] several instances of xine-config found in your PATH
         xine-config executables have been found in these places:
         /usr/bin/xine-config
/usr/bin/xine-config
         This probably means you have several versions of xine-lib installed.
         It's probably best to uninstall all unused xine-libs.
         Further tests will use /usr/bin/xine-config.
         press <enter> to continue...

[ good ] plugin directory /usr/lib/xine/plugins exists.
[ good ] found input plugins
[ good ] found demux plugins
[ good ] found decoder plugins
[ good ] found video_out plugins
[ good ] found audio_out plugins
[ good ] skin directory /usr/share/xine/skins exists.
[ good ] found logo in /usr/share/xine/skins
[ good ] I even found some skins.
[ good ] /dev/cdrom points to /dev/sr0
[ good ] /dev/dvd points to /dev/sr1
[ hint ] Your DVD drive seems not to be attached via ATAPI.
         This might be due to the use of an ide-scsi emulation.
         If you really have a SCSI DVD drive, your SCSI controller is likely
         to do perfect DMA, so there's no reason to worry about this.
         However, if you're using ide-scsi, there is a chance that DMA is
         disabled for the DVD drive. Moreover, I don't know how to enable
         DMA in that case, so you probably have to live with some performance
         loss. (FIXME: check for /proc/ide, provide solution)
         press <enter> to continue...

[ good ] found xvinfo: X-Video Extension version 2.2
[ good ] your Xv extension supports YUV overlays (improves MPEG performance)
[ good ] your Xv extension supports packed YUV overlays
[ good ] Xv ports:  YUY2 YV12 UYVY I420 YUY2 YV12 UYVY I420

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: xin...@li...
> > [mailto:xin...@li...]On Behalf Of Mark Cooke
> > Sent: 05 February 2002 10:51
> > To: James Courtier-Dutton
> > Cc: xin...@li...
> > Subject: RE: [xine-user] cvs / nvidia / shm failures
> >
> > I've been using the NVidia drivers previously, attempted to use the
> > XFree86 ones when I started having trouble with Xine.
> >
> > Currently neither Xv, nor MIT-SHM are working with either driver.

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