Quoting Ville Syrj?l? ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 08:55:14PM +0100, Denis Oliver Kropp wrote: > > Hi, > > > > did you ever wonder why matroxfb only lets you use 16MB > > of your 32MB Matrox card? Here's a patch which enables > > the full 32MB (it works with DirectFB, the matroxfb > > developers were just too lazy to use the DSTORG and > > SRCORG registers). > > I noticed this while playing with multi-app support. Until I crawled > through matroxfb code and fixed it I was unable to run X in > 1600x1200x32bpp if I wanted to use mplayer at the same time. Those > bastards! :) Speaking of multi-app support, I've seen some pretty nasty > stuff with mplayer under XDirectFB. Things work fine the first time but > subsequent mplayer runs fail. I noticed you added some layer related notes > to the TODO list. Are these related?
Yes, mplayer enables the second layer (the core creates a surface and calls the driver functions). If mplayer exits, the surface gets destroyed, but the layer is still enabled. The next time mplayer starts the layer doesn't get enabled, but doesn't have a surface anymore. -- Best regards, Denis Oliver Kropp .------------------------------------------. | DirectFB - Hardware accelerated graphics | | http://www.directfb.org/ | "------------------------------------------" Convergence GmbH -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe directfb-dev" as subject.
