xine fails when allocating images
---------------------------------

Make sure you have enough shared memory enabled. This is very
limited by default.

Edit your /etc/sysctl.conf:

kern.ipc.shmmax=67108864
kern.ipc.shmall=32768



playing video cd on freebsd
---------------------------

currently (because of issues with the freebsd kernel) xine can only
play video cd from atapi cdrom drives. not for scsi drives!

currently (Jan 2001), FreeBSD-stable (and thus the current releases also)
needs a patch to the kernel sources to make video cd work (please check
the freebsd documentation if you are unsure on how to build a custom
kernel with this patch included).

the file you have to patch is /sys/dev/ata/atapi-cd.c:

*** atapi-cd.c.orig     Sun Jan 21 14:42:57 2001
--- atapi-cd.c  Sun Jan 21 14:47:13 2001
***************
*** 1163,1174 ****
                return;
            }
        }
!       if (blocksize == 2048)
!           ccb[0] = ATAPI_READ_BIG;
!       else {
!           ccb[0] = ATAPI_READ_CD;
!           ccb[9] = 0x10;
!       }
      }
      else
        ccb[0] = ATAPI_WRITE_BIG;
--- 1163,1182 ----
                return;
            }
        }
!         switch (blocksize) {
!         case 2048:
!             ccb[0] = ATAPI_READ_BIG;
!             break;
! 
!         case 2352: 
!             ccb[0] = ATAPI_READ_CD;
!             ccb[9] = 0xf8;
!             break;
! 
!         default:
!             ccb[0] = ATAPI_READ_CD;
!             ccb[9] = 0x10;
!         }
      }
      else
        ccb[0] = ATAPI_WRITE_BIG;

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