On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 01:55:52PM +0100, Ondřej Surý wrote: > On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 22:54, Alwin Meschede wrote: > > Michel Dänzer wrote: > > >>The Xvideo support for my ATI Mobility Radeon LY seems to be broken in > > >>4.3.0-pre1v5. Instead of the video playback, I only get a blue window. > > > > > > On which head? > > > > Cool. You just pointed me to a workaround for the problem ;-) > > > > If an external CRT is attached at boot time, the notebook automagically > > disables it's internal LCD screen and uses the CRT only. This is the > > setup that doesn't show video. > > > > If I boot up without CRT attached, Xvideo works for the LCD head (and on > > the CRT if it is attached later). > > This is not ATI related. I experienced same behaviour on S3 Savage IX/C > (IBM Thinkpad T23). I think that may be a hasty conclusion. Full-motion video playback is often highly driver-specific. It just may be that both drivers fail to implement similar functionality. Graphics card manufacturers are often cagey about releasing good programming information for CRT controller chips hooked up to non-VGA outputs when the graphics chipset supports video because of fears that nasty open source programmers won't pass through Macrovision signals, or, worse yet, will let individual users decide for themselves whether the Macrovision signal should be passed through or not. -- G. Branden Robinson | The key to being a Southern Debian GNU/Linux | Baptist: It ain't a sin if you branden@debian.org | don't get caught. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Anthony Davidson
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