Auto detection of video driver doesn't work

[ThomasDahlmann]

If I choose Auto as Video driver my video output is greenish and flaky and eats up all my cpu.

If I choose xshm as video driver I get the perfect picture and the cpu isn't drained, everything is working as it should.

I'm running Hardy Heron using the ati oss driver and Me TV version 0.5.30

[Michael Lamothe (lamothe-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

The issue seems to be that the ATI drivers (OSS and proprietary) seem to have issues with most video output interfaces on Hardy.

I use the proprietary driver and have tried xv, x11, opengl, sdl and fb, none of these work. Now, we can just say that we'll have to wait for ATI/AMD to fix them but it seems to me that libxine/xine-lib should be selecting xshm as the default when "auto" is selected. It's the only interface that seems to work.

xine-lib already has some smarts to determine the best video output driver/interface to use because not all of them work on all setups. I assume that this would simply be another rule. Happy to be corrected.

[Michael Lamothe (lamothe-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Ok, now I feel really stupid. The issue for me seems to be with compiz. Sure, this is still probably a driver issue but I can't expect xine-lib to default all ATI users onto xshm because of a compiz/driver issue.

Thomas, can you please confirm?