Re: ATI Rage Fury (128), bttv and DRI ...
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On Wednesday 08 January 2003 23:51, Sorin MANOLESCU wrote:
> The summary of the problems is as follows:
> I can not get, under X Windows, both 3D acceleration and xawtv, at
> the same time.
>
> - I mean, when I have 3D acceleration, if I start xawtv, my computer
> crashes big time. Only a hard reset it's reviving it.
> In this case, before I start xawtv, glxgears shows an average rate of
> 410 fps.
> The file XFree86.txt contains the log generated by X. It should be
> mentioned here, my video card is the AGP model, and, even when
> agpgart _module_ is loaded before I start X, X is not using it.
If you're not afraid to do a little gruntwork (doesn't sound so, it
won't be worse than what you've done until now :-P), head over to the
DRI project at http://dri.sourceforge.net/ and have a look at the
downloads section. There's a short description on how to get more
recent drivers, but check if those work with XFree 4.1.0 before doing
anything. Support for XVideo seems to have moved into the ATI drivers
not until recently, so you might get lucky there.
If you've still got any problems, you can check the output of both
glxinfo and xvinfo.
You should also check if it's possible for you to upgrade to XFree 4.2
(it's in testing) since it's got several driver improvements included.
I don't know however how difficult this would be.
> - OTOH if I disable 3D acceleration I can have the TV. In this case
> when I use full screen mode a thick border is surrounding the TV
> window and glxgears shows only 120 fps.
Getting xawtv to scale properly can be done by setting it to
"grabdisplay" in the right-click menu when XVideo is working ("Capture"
setting). But it switches back each time you change channels. Scaling
won't work in overlay mode. The rather massive slowdown can be
considered normal since your TV card is just clobbering the bus with
image data.
- --
Embedded Linux -- True multitasking!
TWO TOASTS AT THE SAME TIME!
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