On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 01:02, Peter Surda wrote: > On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 11:32:16PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > > use dma to transfer frames to video ram, or memcpy? > > > Do you know what drivers use DMA for this? > > Only r128 yet, > The closed source nvidia drivers do it as well.
I was going to mention them, but I think they're off-topic here. > > but it's quite fragile there, > It is by no way fragile. Since my MSI board fscked up in January and I bought > an Elitegroup, I haven't had a single lockup while doing Xv (and I use it > several hours a day). Even X didn't crash. If it's stable even when moving windows around while playing video, has GATOS solved the stability issues? On my box at work with a Rage128 Pro, even doing nothing but playing a video would lock the box up within seconds. > The problem with r128 is different, that something is doing busy-loops anyway, > and noone was able to find what. One seldom finds these things by guessing and speculating. ;) -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast _______________________________________________________________ Hundreds of nodes, one monster rendering program. Now that's a super model! Visit http://clustering.foundries.sf.net/ _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
