Wednesday, May 12, 2010

MPC-HC D3DX9.DLL error

When I use the dDirectX output for the Media Player Classic Homecinema, I got the D3DX9 error. A quick search on Google shows that this error can be eradicated by

Step 1. open “C:\Program Files\MPC HomeCinema” with your explorer.
Step 2. Make a copy “ANY” of dll (e.g. mpcresources.fr.dll)
Step 3. Rename the duplication dll to “d3dx9_41.dll”

Full details can be found at

http://hkdennis2k.homeip.net/2009/12/29/simplest-way-to-fix-no-d3dx9-dll-with-mpc-hc-on-windows-7/

Sunday, May 2, 2010

Older ATi Card and Ubuntu

I have been using VESA driver instead of ATi driver for my old IBM Notebook due to the corrupted notification problem in Ubuntu.

Today, I have found the following from the Ubuntu site, which may seem to be the solution for my problem.



With older ATI graphics cards with 32MB or less of video RAM some corruption of direct rendered windows, for example OSD notifier windows, might appear. This may be worked around by disabling 'RenderAccel' in the Xorg configuration. (426582)

To do this first exit to the console using the following command:

sudo service gdm stop

Then create an Xorg configuration file with the command below:

sudo Xorg -configure
Then add the 'RenderAccel' option to /etc/X11/xorg.conf:

Section "Device"
...
Driver "radeon"
Option "RenderAccel" "off"
EndSection
And restart X/GDM.

sudo service gdm start