How do I debug this?

[Drew Parsons]

On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 01:03 -0400, Richard Bronosky wrote:
> I have installed the new intel video driver, xserver, and xrandr based
> on http://burtonini.com/blog/computers/randr-2007-02-06-17-50 using
> this in my apt sources:
> deb http://burtonini.com/debian/ feisty/
> 
> I'm not sure what exact versions of what I have.  But I cannot see any
> video of any kind.  when I play a theora, or mpeg4, or anything
> else... I hear the audio, but the video is blank.
> 
> How do I debug this?  I know nothing about the Linux GUI/display
> stack.  I'm a Linux server guy.  I'm willing to build from  git
> source, but I don't know what to build.
> 

Sounds like that might be the Xv problem. Being fixed in latest git, see
http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=xorg/driver/xf86-video-intel.git;a=summary

Grab it with

git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/driver/xf86-video-intel


Drew