Re: Xvideo extension, radeon mobility Xfree 4.2.1
On Die, 2002-10-08 at 22:35, Matija Grabnar wrote:
> I was looking forward to this version of Xfree because it is supposed
> to support the more advanced features of my laptop's Radeon Mobility
> card.
>
> Specificaly, I want/need hardware scaling for video.
>
> I would like to emphasize here that I'm probably overlooking something
> stupid. This is an appeal for help, not a bug report.
> I'm running Debian Sid, obviously.
>
> I can see in the xfree log that the Xvideo extension gets loaded, but
> it's not visible to xvinfo or to mplayer -vo xv.
>
> I am hoping this means I overlooked some setting, configuration file
> or some other obvious thing I should change in my setting and not
> some deficiency in the support for Radeon mobility.
The vesa driver doesn't support the XVideo extension, you need the ati
driver.
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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