> I am using ati-drivers, xfce4 and also fails when using xdm and not xdm. > > Any suggestions please????
There's already a bugreport on bugzilla, sadly no solution yet: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=391193 A workaround is to tell your video player to use opengl as videoout instead of the default xv video out. With VLC: # vlc --vout glx Other players provide these options too.
