another interesting video problem VLC won't play dvd- resolved.

[Mario Vukelic]

On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 14:52 -0400, Gary Kirkpatrick wrote:
> I found the file you were looking for and attached it.  At least I
> think it is the file you were looing for.  I used nautilus to search
> that portion of the hard drive where I see what I think are the ubuntu
> files.  Perhaps I misunderstand something here.

That was the correct one. It is not much different from Windows. There
you have paths like

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office

Where, as you probably know, C: is the drive and directories are
delimited by the backslash character, \

In Unix-like systems, there is no drive letter because they use the
saner approach of having a unified directory tree, with drives that can
be integrated into the tree in arbitrary locations, for example
under /media. And the directory delimiter is a forward slash, /


>From the logfile I can now see that you use the (free) "Radeon" driver,
and that your hardware is an ATI Radeon Mobility 9000 (M9). I have no
experience with this, but there is documentation about this driver here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonDriver

Further down, there is a section about dual-head support:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonDriver#head-c3c53d7252cd89f85898dd794ca17115011ad30f

Maybe you find something helpful there.


Otherwise, you might want to try the (proprietary) "fglrx" driver from
Ati. You can enable it from menu System > Administration > Hardware
Drivers, by checking the box.
Only when you run the fglrx driver can you use the fglrx-control
application that I recommended to try (sorry for that, I thought you
were already running fglrx).
Documentation, including troubleshooting info, can be found here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI

I use this driver, and I had no problems getting video to work on the
external device.