I have a v3 2000 and have had the problems u describe and fixed them as outlined...sorry to say though that i havent experienced the problems u are having with xmms et al. All the videos it is prepared to play at all it plays well....there may be another problem with your system ( i wouldnt bet on it but i would like to blame the banshee ( bad experience with one:))) On Thursday 10 May 2001 05:40, Sam wrote: > Thanks to all who replied! Following the outlined steps, I can now switch > to full-screen for games :) However I am still encountering some > "abnormalities": > > 1) using AVIplay to play AVIs or ASFs, I can now switch to full-screen > modewithout X dying on me. However, the results of the full-screen mode > aren't entirely consistent. For instance, if the video window was first > maximised to fill the entire screen, the full-screen mode looks nice > enough. But if the video window were at any other size, full-screen mode > would result in a small video screen with large black border all around. > > 2) The same thing happens with MTV for MPEG playback. The only difference > is that there's no way to maximise the video window to fill the entire > screen in the first place, so I can't get the "proper" full-screen effect > at all. > > 3) XMovie and XMMS-SMPEG all still segfault immediately upon any attempt to > playback MPEG videos. > > I wonder whether these are problems only encountered by users of 3Dfx > Banshee cards, or ALL 3Dfx cards i.e. including the Voodoo3 variants? Many > thanks in advance. > > On Wednesday 09 May 2001 16:15, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > > Sam, Francisco had it right in his reply to my message! Don't do a > > graphical login. In my case, I opened a shell, typed in (as su) > > "Xconfigurator", and picked my normal: > > > > 1024x768 res > > 16bit depth > > > > but when it asked me if I wanted a graphical login, I said -NO-. Then, > > from the console login, I logon with my normal user account, type in > > startx, and all works fine. MTV, Xmms with the SMPEG plugin, all games. > > The Shogo demo even, which I couldn't get to work under my old setup > > (v7.0 and v7.1) now works fine in full screen. > > > > Hurrah! (and thanks Francisco!) ;-)
