[Info-vax] Audio and video technology, was: Re: getting pixel dimensions of monitor

[Simon Clubley]

On 2013-02-06, VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG <VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG> wrote:
> In article <kers70$msk$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
>>
>>I should clarify this part to make clear that in the case of my home
>>machines I am referring to the PC hardware other than the graphics
>>adapter; the graphics adapters use the NVIDIA binary Linux drivers
>>so I can use hardware acceleration to play games and do other things.
>>
>>However, my main work machine is using a ATI adapter which uses the
>>Scientific Linux supplied drivers and I had the same trouble free
>>experience with that as well.
>
> And just when I was about to praise how well things were going, I unstalled
> the latest updates and now 'totem' is hopelessly broken.  Complaining about
> a Gdk error.  Gotta love those informative error messages too... error_code
> 1 request code 154 minor_code 19.  Talk about cryptic.  ;)
>

That would appear to be a GLX problem (assuming your "request code 154" is
really major opcode 154). Is totem trying to use features not supported by
your graphics card or graphics drivers ? Maybe the latest drivers are
broken or have been replaced by another type (ie: switched from either open
source or vendor supplied binaries to the other type) of graphics driver ?

Assuming a Ubuntu installation, it seems you are not the first one to
encounter this. Try reading the following and follow the links to see
if they offer any insights.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11287162/error-on-starting-emulator-for-avd-after-adt-20-install

Simon.

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