Problem with gxine and ati driver : solution ?

[Alex Deucher]

On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 11:26 AM, giggz <giggzounet at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  I'm running under debian SID (up to date) with e17 and the ati free driver.
>  Since the last update of xine/gxine and ati driver, I have problem when
>  I play video in fullscreen. The screen blinks periodicaly. I saw that
>  the  gixe dev (Darren Salt) spoke on this topic here (xset dpms force on
>  does the same thing that when I play a video under gxine).
>
>
>  Is there actually a solution to solve this problem ? Or just wait until
>  the next upgrade ?

This is an issue with xine, not the driver.  xine repeatedly forces
the monitor to unblank as a hack to keep the screen saver fro kicking
in.

Alex