On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 19:07, Emmanuel Charpentier wrote: > > Michel Dänzer wrote: > > On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 10:12, Emmanuel Charpentier wrote: > > > >>3) I didn't report libxv1 as broken in 4.3.0-5 ; I reported it broken *for* > >>*me*, *and* saw that users of other cards submitted similar reports. I > >>agree with you that it might be problems in individual card drivers ; > > > > > > The information in your original report suggests that there's simply not > > enough video RAM available. Definitely not a libxv1 problem. > > You mean that the available 4MB video RAM were enough for successfully run > glav under X 4.2.x, but not under 4.3.x ? How come ??
No idea. Maybe something changed in the sis driver; Thomas Winischhofer, its maintainer, should know. > >>however, it might also be caused by a new assumption of the libxv1 about a > >>function which happens to more or less well supported by various cards > >>drivers. > > > > SDL doesn't even use the shared libxv1 yet... > > Hmmm ... So could you explain why *disabling* libxv1 use (by means of the > environment variable hinted at in my previous post) allows me to run glav > successfully (see the error it gave me in my initial bug report) ? It's an SDL environment variable which causes it not to use the XVideo extension. It has nothing to do with libxv1. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer Libre software enthusiast | http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
