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greenfish

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From: eating fish in /dev/null

Registered: 2008-08-30

Posts: 229

xbmc+nvidia+vdpau issues [SOLVED]

I've been at this for 5 hours straight now, and i'm back to square one. I've tried xbmc-svn but that one didn't even have "vdpau" listed as an option, so I tried xbmc instead. And yes vdpau is showing up as an option but no matter what I try the screen gets screen/grey/different colors everytime I try to launch a movie using vdpau, tried nvidia and nvidia-beta same issue.

I'm totally stumped, is there a secret/magic setting i've forgotten to use in my xorg?

GPU: 9800GT 512MB
Using HDMI - LCD
780G mobo (internal ati gpu disabled)

I just tried xbmc-live (usb stick) and watching a movie with vdpau results in a grey/green/distorted screen. That worries me a lot, I mean if it's not working on the usb stick then my gpu might be damaged or something?

ISSUE RESOLVED, IT WAS MY GPU, BOUGHT A NEW ONE TODAY

Here's my xorg (using hal dbus nvidia)

# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder58)  Fri Aug 14 18:34:43 PDT 2009

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option         "AllowMouseOpenFail" "true"
    Option         "AutoAddDevices" "true"
    Option         "Xinerama" "0"
    Option         "NoLogo" "True"
    Option "ConnectedMonitor" "DFP"
    Option "TripleBuffer" "True"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "SAMSUNG"
    HorizSync       15.0 - 46.0
    VertRefresh     50.0 - 61.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "GeForce 9800 GT"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "TwinView" "0"
    Option         "metamodes" "1920x1080 +0+0"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Last edited by greenfish (2009-09-28 10:51:05)

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