I believe this bug was fixed in savage driver 2.3.3 (Ubuntu 12.04).
** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-savage (Ubuntu)
Status: Triaged => Fix Released
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/670790
Title:
Xv / XVideo accelerated video width is limited by / depending on the
screen resolution on S3 Savage, but only if the laptop LCD is the
primary screen
Status in “xserver-xorg-video-savage” package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Bug description:
Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-s3
This bug exists at least since 10.04 lucid, maybe earlier (have not
tested it before).
I am using the S3 savage driver for a S3 Savage/MX card on an HP
XE3-GC laptop. When playing videos (no matter which player as long as
the Xv acceleration is used), I encounter the following problem:
whenever the LCD is the primary screen (with its hardware resolution
of 1024x768), the video "input" width processed by Xv is limited by
the ratio of the actual resolution divided by the LCD hardware width
(1024). If I set the resolution to 800x600 for example (to be able to
use the TV output in full screen mode), I only can see 800/1024 = 0,78
of the real video width, no matter if the video is displayed in a
small player window or enlarged to full screen. On the right of the
video display, the remaining width is filled with a black (or
sometimes blue) bar. Using s3switch to change the output to TV keeps
this limitation, which makes watching video on a TV or projector a
pain!
If the CRT (external VGA out) is the main display (e.g. by using the
laptop in its docking station), I can change the resolution to
whatever I want and still have the full video width. Because of
distances, however, I could not yet check if the output transition CRT
--> TV keeps this full width also for the video output.
In any case, the xvinfo program does not show any limitation - but
this limitation should only concern the OUTPUT resolution anyway, not
the "source" width of the video being processed.
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