does Xvideo work if you remove the panning check? if so i don't see why we couldn't remove it. I'll try and check on my savage IX tonight or tomorrow.
Alex --- Billy Biggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On startup, the savage driver protects its call to initialize its > XVideo code like this (savage_driver.c in 4.2.1 and 4.3): > > if( !psav->NoAccel && !SavagePanningCheck(pScrn) ) > SavageInitVideo( pScreen ); > > The 'SavagePanningCheck()' call checks to make sure that the > virtual > desktop resolution is equal to the current HDisplay/VDisplay, that > is, > the resolution on startup. > > A user of my app complained that XVideo wasn't working. As it > turned > out, he had the resolutions listed backwards in his config file, so > on > startup virtual != res, no Init called, and hence no XVideo surfaces. > > I have to wonder if that check is a bug. It took a long time to > figure out why there were no XVideo surfaces, especially since no > message is sent to the log. I can think of three resolutions: > > a) Patch to warn to the log file if the PanningCheck call fails. > b) Take out the PanningCheck call or rewrite Init to work without > it. > c) Ignore this because some xrandr-relted stuff makes this obsolete > in > 4.3 ? > > I am only qualified to do (a), and have no hardware to test with. > :-) > > Thoughts? > > -- > Billy Biggs > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
