From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GZcoJ-0001NT-C0 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 00:27:59 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9H0Pilq029212; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 00:25:44 GMT Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.187]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9H0NK2w009394 for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 00:23:20 GMT Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id p46so141900nfa for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 17:23:19 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=uEfpXQbKq/N8w448B6S8JgwZcqrR5Hjc49HS0UhdsL+dJnsvOVBzMrh3vR5PsMKinOnWVmRVVWn/XIiRc1446X4379TGlONEW82j/B8mAkk3/pcKRT6fqowX00grWsvylwGoQNQv0uWMrbfI9J4SDhWQGqUHhPmPzZNFO3flsfY= Received: by 10.78.150.7 with SMTP id x7mr8507291hud; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 17:23:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.128.7 with HTTP; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 17:23:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <49bf44f10610161723u2d1e0646ief1d75e871b6004@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 17:23:19 -0700 From: Grant To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server update causes horizontal line in movies In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <49bf44f10610160944t50042cc6t839d8e39480550e6@mail.gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 1440c37b-5d02-49d7-950b-780886869da6 X-Archives-Hash: 5e86dce421e06ccde10b1266b6f11ba4 > > After I updated to the latest xorg-server this weekend, I started > > noticing that movie playback has a horizontal line across the middle > > of the screen that kind of looks like the image is broken. It always > > shows up when there is a lot of on-screen movement. A flash makes it > > very visible. It looks like one half of the screen is moving a litle > > slower than the other half of the screen. > > > > It happens in totem, mplayer, and vlc and mplayer terminal output > > confirms that I am using xv. I'm using nvidia-drivers and I've tried > > the masked version with no luck. Has anyone else seen this? > > That's due to the lack of vertical synchronisation. > > The graphicscard sends the picture to your monitor. While that happends, > in the middle of the movie-picture, the movieplayer switches to the next > frame of the movie. The result: you see the upper half of frame N and > the lower half of frame N+1 Yeah, that's exactly what it looks like. I tried specifying HorizSync and VertRefresh in xorg.conf and also a Modeline, but they don't seem to make any difference. I got the data from my TV's EDID data. Modeline, HorizSync, and VertRefresh are all defined under the monitor section of xorg.conf right? Section "Monitor" Identifier "monitor" # HorizSync 31-83 # VertRefresh 56-85 Modeline "1360x768" 86.96 1360 1480 1528 1774 768 778 783 817 -Hsync -Vsync EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "screen" Device "device" Monitor "monitor" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1360x768" EndSubSection EndSection - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list