VLC problem

[Chisum]

Any video card suggestions would be helpful. I do not play games. Just a basic card. I buy from NewEgg. I look at all of the cards and it just blows my mind. Something good but basic and inexpensive.

I need to build a new box but I have the same problem with all of the legions of cpu chips.

[Yankee]

Any video card suggestions would be helpful. I do not play games. Just a basic card. I buy from NewEgg. I look at all of the cards and it just blows my mind. Something good but basic and inexpensive.

I need to build a new box but I have the same problem with all of the legions of cpu chips.

I'm confused too when price doesn't always lead to higher specs.
Be sure it does full HD and get the heftiest one, memory, speed,
perhaps a heat sink, that your budget can afford.

[djohnston]

Texstar is probably the qt4 expert. I do believe there are enough qt4 developer libs and packages to get you going.

On the videocard, a hefty one, Like Ferdes said. However, I also suggest you get one that does not have a cooling fan. I've had the cooling fans go out on two nVidia cards in as many years.

[Reb]

As someone said earlier.........

Any modern card from ATI or Nvidia would be a good step up from the via (s3).

the problem as I see it would be the slots available.

most modern cards are "PCIExpress" slot, and by sound of it you have the older AGP slot or even older PCI slot.

try looking out for a second hand Nvidia FX5200 (128mb ddr ram) that was AGP, and a good card as I recall (if you have AGP slot in machine).

or just wait and build a new machine 

[Fonnie]

no luck here.

I've tried VLC to play a sample mpg movie, and have the same behaviour like OP has.

I'm using that pinned down (force version) openchrome update, but no luck.

For the moment no worry for me, it's a spare machine, and I do not play video on it, but will try to look into it

[Chisum]

Help!!

The new driver  for VIA has some real problems. I do not even know how to track a video driver to its author. But there are a bunch of folks with the VIA problem.

[Just17]

What happens if you try using Vesa ......  as you don't need any fancy stuff this may work well enough.

I have not tried on a Via card so don't actually know what the outcome would be.

In PCC - Hardware - Video Card - select the Graphic Card ... scroll down to xorg and select 'vesa' ..... 

If it fails on a reboot you can invoke PCC from the command line to choose the Via driver again (command  pcc).

[Fonnie]

if I select Vesa, and reboot, I'm not even coming to a prompt, so can't change that.

System hangs completely before starting X or giving the prompt

seems I need to find a way to login, or re-install

To my fellow Via users, don't try it, may give more problems

to Just19: no worry, I'm willing to try everything, as I said in another post, it's my spare

[Just17]

if I select Vesa, and reboot, I'm not even coming to a prompt, so can't change that.

System hangs completely before starting X or giving the prompt

seems I need to find a way to login, or re-install

To my fellow Via users, don't try it, may give more problems

to Just19: no worry, I'm willing to try everything, as I said in another post, it's my spare

Using a LiveCD you should be able to change the xorg.conf file for the previous one with the other driver listed.

[Fonnie]

LiveCD, good tip, haven't thought of that, stupid me.

[Yankee]

if I select Vesa, and reboot, I'm not even coming to a prompt, so can't change that.

There's a package in the repo called do-vesa.   Works on my machine to use vesa
when all else fails.   Easily changed back thru the regular video configuration screen.

[Chisum]

Well, now it will not even boot into X. Too bad some of you 'big shots' could not have warned us. What is also kind of sad is the S3 driver runs my 23" monitor at 1990 just fine.

too bad all linux can support is the big iron. but i think that is the new style.

[djohnston]

too bad all linux can support is the big iron. but i think that is the new style.

I'm running PCLinux on a 1999 Dell Pentium3 with 512 MB of RAM. It runs just fine. Is that "big iron"?

[Fonnie]

I might have found the solution

see http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,96080.0.html

After this, VLC does not crash anymore to prompt

I'm waiting in the other tread to see what the next step may be

I'm not encouraging you to install outside the repo, so I think that a package request might be the next step, but then again, it is not a stable release...

[I_can_see_the_light]

As a workaround the OP could consider changing the video settings in VLC. I don't have a Via card so I can't recommend anything though.