Comment 9 for bug 1219332

Stephen,

My motherboard is an Intel D2550MUD2. I know for a fact that the kernel and X failed to detect much of its video capability. The kernel is using a gma500_gfx module when in fact the Intel graphics is GMA3650 (Cedar View). X is using a modesetting driver, not an Intel driver. For the most part, this works out okay for me and other Intel orphans.

I am sure there are many 'buntu users out there with kernel and X detection failures of various sorts (older computers, older graphics cards, etc.). It's a good thing that vlc is able to work-around this automatically. But, parole is the default video utility in, at least, xubuntu. So, it would be great if it worked universally out of the box.

I don't believe that non-programmer users will be able to deduce from the anomaly-reporting pop-up box that the `parole --xv false` command or manually setting property "enable-xv" to true in $HOME/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/parole.xml will fix this issue. I suspect that these folks will give up on parole rather quickly and switch to something else that works like vlc.

Suggestion: Make XV support in parole disabled by default. Then, everyone would get playback function working out of the box. People with more advanced hardware and lucky enough to get correct detection can google how to improve the quality of parole playback.

Richard