xine crashes KDE when i try to watch a dvd

[m4dman]

i am a complete linux newbie.. i choose slackware 12.0 for ease of installation but i cant figure out how to get movies to play. It will slow my system down to a crawl even to the point my mouse moves at a very slow a jumpy pace. Then when i go to close it down it crashes X....any help would be great

i did a default full Slackware 12.0 install so whatever kernel that is


system specs are :# AMD Athlon 64 3500+ Processor
# 512MB PC3200 DDR Memory
# 200GB 7,200rpm ATA Hard Drive
# 16x DVD+/-RW Dual Layer Burner with Lightscribe
# AC'97 Audio
# ATI Radeon Xpress 200 Integrated Graphics with 128MB Shared Memory
# v.92 56Kbps Modem and Fast Ethernet
# Seven USB 2.0 Ports, Two FireWire Ports and 9-in-1 Media Card Reader

[aliov]

you have to install the libdvdcss in order to watch DVD's, you can compile it from source if you like or simply download it from LinuxPackages: View and install it by installpkg libdvdcss-1.2.9

Hope this help

[m4dman]

Ok i have libdvdcss installed now video plays but it still hogs system resources and is unviewable .....the screen in all distrorted in either gxine or xine... so i am guessing something else is the matter also

[aliov]

Ah i see, probably it's related to your X , are using the vesa driver or you installed the correct ati driver ?

[m4dman]

not sure how do i check ? it is weird cuz just about everything worked right out of the installlation.. but i have to set up fstab for permissions for my usr account but i had help from a guy on an irc channel.. but he hasnt been around since to get more help from him

[aliov]

You can check wish driver you have , go to /etc/X11 and have a look in your xorg.conf file there , under the Section Device see the driver , something like driver "i810" and tell me to proceed installing the driver if it's not installed.

Regards.

[m4dman]

# Graphics device section
# ************************************************** ********************

# Any number of graphics device sections may be present

Section "Device"
Identifier "VESA Framebuffer"
Driver "vesa"
#VideoRam 4096

I guess it is a vesa driver installed .... What should i do now to correct the problem ?

[aliov]

this card x200 it's suported any more by ATI , so use the driver of the Xorg replace the vesa (Driver "ati" ) ,one with simply ati and try it.

Regards.

[m4dman]

tried it screen goes blank... any other options

[aliov]

Okay then try to use radeon simply instead of ati , and i guess this will work

Regards.