Video playback does, in fact, work, but once again, there is a work around.
The problem with vlc is it attempts to use the wrong playback plugin.  I'm
at work, so I can't give you specifics, but the quick and dirty is to open
vlc, go to options (preferences?), go to video options (modules?/plugins?),
and change the default playback module from default to xv, or x11.  I think
you may have to enable advanced options to be able to see this option.  I'm
going from memory, and I can't recall for sure.  I'll update this a little
more thoroughly when I am at home in front of my laptop.

On 6/12/07, megsona <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> The above workarounds worked for me I'm glad to say, however, can
> other people confirm that video playback still doesn't work?
>
> When attempting to play video (in vlc for example) I just get a blue
> screen, interestingly though video from youtube etc. (ie. flash based)
> works fine.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alan
>
> On 6/8/07, tehdon <email address hidden> wrote:
> > There is no fix.  It is a workaround, and it's posted a few comments
> up.  The default "Accelmethod" of EXA in the xorg.conf causes the trident
> driver to break, you must replace the "Accelmethod" with XAA.  I also
> download the EXPERIMENTAL or UNSTABLE trident driver from the Debian
> repositories and then I unpack the deb, and copy the trident_drv.so over the
> default one, just for good measure.  I sent Mark a step by step
> workaround.  Here is the email:
> > -------------EMAIL---------------------
> > Try this:
> >
> > I'm including two files, one is my xorg.conf file, and the other is
> > the experimental trident driver.  Download both of these to a suitable
> > location, then execute the following commands in a terminal in order:
> >
> > cd <to the directory you downloaded to>
> > sudo cp /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/trident_drv.so
> > /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/trident.old
> > sudo cp ./trident_drv.so /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/trident_drv.so
> > sudo mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.old
> > sudo cp ./xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> > xinit
> >
> > Let me know if it works for you.
> >
> > Donald
> > ----------------EMAIL---------------------
> >
> > The file was just the trident_drv.so that I unpacked from the xserver-
> > xorg-video-trident driver from the Debian repoisitory.  You can get the
> > BINARY from here :
> >
> > http://packages.debian.org/cgi-
> > bin/download.pl?arch=i386&file=pool%2Fmain%2Fx%2Fxserver-xorg-video-
> > trident%2Fxserver-xorg-video-
> >
> trident_1.2.3-1_i386.deb&md5sum=ca10e27dd0595cf9024adf53145d671a&arch=i386&type=main
> >
> > YOU MUST NOT ATTEMPT TO INSTALL THIS FILE.  YOU MUST UNPACK THIS FILE
> > AND MANUALLY COPY THE TRIDENT_DRV.SO FILE OR YOU WILL BREAK YOUR XORG
> > CONFIG.  To unpack the xserver-xorg-video-trident driver file, you must
> > 'ar -x xserver-xorg-video-trident.deb'  This will yield two tar.gz
> > files.  Inside of one of these files is the trident_drv.so file you
> > need.
> >
> > The xorg.conf file is just a vanilla xorg.conf file with the
> > aforementioned changes.
> >
> > --
> > Dragging and scrolling garbles window content (edgy beta)
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/63051
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> >
>
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> Dragging and scrolling garbles window content (edgy beta)
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/63051
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