Bug#365441: xserver-xorg-video-savage: XVideo extension using too much CPU
On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 01:01:34PM +0200, Brice Goglin wrote:
>Hi,
>
>About a year ago, you reported a bug to the Debian BTS regarding XVideo
>using too much CPU on a Savage board. Did you reproduce this problem
>recently? With Xorg/Etch? If not, I will close this bug in the next weeks.
>
>Thanks,
>Brice
Hello,
It never really went away. That is, even with the latest (as of about one
month ago) version in unstable it was still present.
I was unable to get any help or pointers on the xorg mailing list so I
eventually gave up and bought a cheap Nvidia card. This machine is my MythTV
box and Myth has a couple of extra features on Nvidia cards (such as sync on
v-blank for TV-out).
The savage driver, at least on this particular chipset, also had a few other
issues including some corruption/artifacts with Xvideo playback and
instability with GL, so the upgrade was worth it.
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