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I am using softdevice (0.2.3, I was using 0.2.2 before) in a system with an ATI Radeon 9500 AGP, Xorg 6.8.2 , ATI's fglrx driver ver 8.24.8 . Xorg is loading the ATI xv-overlay. Overlay mode is set to "psuedo" (hardware?). I've tried VDR versions 1.3.44 to 1.3.48 with same behavior.
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Are there any suggestions?
You're using closed-source drivers. Maybe you should contact ATI or switch to open-source...?