I'm running RedHat 7.3 (with the supplied xf86 4.2.0, and KDE 3.0), on my new(old) Compaq Armada 4220T laptop, which has a Chips 65555, and an 800x600 TFT LCD.
I'm trying to get things set up to where I can play movies with gmplayer, and get useful results, and while I've come a long way baby in the last week, I still have two problems left to solve. 1) Whether using mplayer's "enable xv(ideo) hardware zoom" switch or not, I see luminance artifacts in the image, apparently in the midtones. they only comprise about 2% of the image, but they're annoying to look at. They are specifically not blown shadows not highlights -- this isn't an overflow problem (though it might be a LUT loading problem). Though I lose immense amounts of framerate (~20 -> ~4fps), I can run in x11 instead of xv video output mode, and I do *not* get these artifacts there. They also seem to be independant of codec; I've tried 4 or 5 different types of QuickTime files, a couple of MPEG's and a RealVideo -- all the same. I'm running the server in 24 bit -- mplayer says it can't talk to xv if I start the server in 8 bit mode. Everything's pretty much the same, too, whether I'm in 800x600 native or some other mode, which I know because.... 2) I'm trying to get the otherwise working picture to come out the NTSC scan converter RCA jack on the back of this machine. This doesn't work in a different way: while the video appears pretty passable, it's shifted down and right on a blue background, by 20-25% of screen size. This applies whether I have the panel in 800 native, 640 stretch, 640 non-stretch non-centered, or 640 non-stretch centered. In googling around, I see that non-stretch panning, both on the VGA and the NTSC outputs, is a topic worked on in the last release of driver for Windows from HPaq, so obviously, us Linux people ain't alone. Oh, and occasionally, something mangles the LUT's cause the colors get all turned inside out (my orange gradient background goes to a green gradient, video gets badly mangled, etc)... but this part only seems to happen when I involve the NTSC out. I'd be happy to post (or web-post) the server log and some gmplayer logs, if that would be useful. I'd upgrade to 4.3.x if someone thought that was a good thing to do, but on a 96M/10G P266 laptop, things are a bit tight; if I can avoid a 4 hours compile, I'd like to. If anyone has had any experience with this particular laptop (and/or chipset) and Xvideo, their thoughts would be appreciated. I've already run this with Egbert Eich, who apparently maintains the driver, and we haven't come to much. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Member of the Technical Staff Baylink RFC 2100 The Suncoast Freenet The Things I Think Tampa Bay, Florida http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 OS X: Because making Unix user-friendly was easier than debugging Windows -- Simon Slavin, on a.f.c _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
