[kde-freebsd] Dragonplayer fails to play after KDE 4.8 upgrade

[Rusty Nejdl]

On 2012-06-20 01:28, Joerg Wunsch wrote:
> I've got an older Siemens Fujitsu Amilo laptop with the following
> graphics board:
>
> Chipset: "ATI Mobility Radeon X700 (M26) (PCIE)" (ChipID = 0x5653)
>
> Ever since I upgraded this machine's KDE to 4.8, Dragonplayer fails 
> to
> play movies anymore, both from DVD or from a file.  It starts,
> displays one of the first pictures from the movie, then sometimes a
> stipple pattern like:
>
> http://uriah.heep.sax.de/outgoing/dragon.png
>
> then it goes black, and sits there.
>
> When running Dragonplayer remotely on a network X11 display, the
> display works (albeit sluggish, of course).
>
> Mplayer works fine on that machine, both for files as well as for DVD
> access (so problems with libdvdcss could be singled out), and
> Dragonplayer did work on it in the past, before the most recent KDE
> upgrade.
>
> In my desparation, I removed *all* packages from /usr/local, and
> reinstalled everything from scratch.  The symptoms remained.
>
> Does anyone have an idea how to fix it?

I am running on NVIDIA and just tested Dragonplayer with 3 concurrent 
videos without issue.

Rusty