What hardware are you using (the i810 driver handles a range of chipsets), and which version of vmware to you have? Finally, how is vmware informing you that there is no acceleration in DGA mode?
David -- David Dawes Release Engineer/Architect The XFree86 Project www.XFree86.org/~dawes On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 03:21:38PM +0100, Max Zaitsev wrote: >Hi Devel-List, > >I have already posted the same question on XFree list but received no answer >and re-posting the original message here in hope to find some DGA-experts or >the i810 maintainer(s). > >The problem is that I need vmware in full-screen mode badly and >"go-and-by-another-card" is not an option -- that's the office PC with >on-board adapter and I'll have difficulties explaining to my boss why would I >need the second graphic card. > >Any help is appreciated. > >Max Zaitsev > >---------- Forwarded Message ---------- > >Subject: [XFree86] Accelerated DGA with i810 ? >Date: Wednesday 05 February 2003 02:24 pm >From: Max Zaitsev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Hi List. > >I'm having troubles with vmware, which claims it cannot detect any >acceleration in DGA mode, which is needed for full-screen operation. As a >result, the full-screen mode is awfully slow... I'm currently using XFree >4.2.0, but I've also tried 4.2.99 snapshot. > >My questions are: > >1. Is it XFree or i810 driver problem, or is it vmware, which fails to detect >acceleration, when actually it's there? > >2. Are there tools/code examples which would test DGA capabilities? > >3. If there is no acceleration for DGA in the official i810 driver >implementation are there any unofficial drivers around in the net which would >have that support? > >_______________________________________________ >Devel mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
