Re: [xine-user] xine runs but the screen is black

[<Ric...@t-...>]

Derrik Pates wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Richard Foley wrote:
> 
> > What happens is that the drive starts humming (as being read) and the
> > place indicator drifts slowly to the right, as the DVD apparently is
> > being read/played.  The screen however stays a monotonous tone of dark
> > black :-\  No picture!
> 
> If I'm right, it's playing, but the video is black because it has no color
> masks.
> 
Sounds about right.

> > video_driver_id = 'XShm'
> 
> Ok, this can't be good.
> 
?-(

> > gui_main: couldn't find true color visual for video window.
> 
> Can't find TrueColor visual? Also bad. Are you using 8bpp (PseudoColor)
> mode? If so, this will be a serious problem.
>
No idea :-)
 
> > video_out_xshm: video mode depth is 8 (8 bpp), not swapped,
> >         red: 00000000, green: 00000000, blue: 00000000
> 
> No bitmasks for the color fields? You must be using 8bpp. You'll _have_ to
> use at least 15/16bpp depth to get video playback working. What version of
> XFree86 are you using? What video card?
> 
Video card => 'graphics' card you mean?

	Graphics Card is a Matrox Millenium: PCI:*(1:5:0) Matrox MGA G400
 
SuperProbe returns the following:
 
	First video: Super-VGA
        Chipset: Matrox (chipset unknown) (PCI Probed)
                Signature data: 68 (please report)
        RAMDAC:  Generic 8-bit pseudo-color DAC
                 (with 6-bit wide lookup tables (or in 6-bit mode))   

I've attached the XFree86.0.log on the off-chance it helps, hope that's
OK?

I have to say - I'm floundering a bit here, I'm not a graphics
configuration expert - you may have noticed :-)

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Richard Foley
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