I was sad that I jumped to a clearly wrong conclusion on the original poster's message, but hey might as well run with it... :)
Hetz Ben Hamo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > The solution to this is that overlay mode should be deprecated. The > > functionality, where the frames are transferred directly to video > > memory, has been put into an XFree86 extension called, simply, > > "v4l", and this allows the X server to be made aware of what's going > > on, and lets it handle memory allocation properly. Add the line: > > > > Load "v4l" > > I don't know why, but it's VERY buggy with bt878 based cards (I have 2 > of them - and they have the same problems, although they are from 2 > different vendors). How is it buggy? What is the issue? What version of X? What video card? > I have sent emails to xfree-devel about this and to this list, but I > didn't see any answer about this at all, so I'm forced to use the DGA > crap (and it is crap, specially while you're waiting when compiling > some big stuff)... This I don't understand. Why does the DGA mode (overlay mode) cause difficulties when compiling stuff? The purpose of that is to eat 0 cpu... What's up? -- Billy Biggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- video4linux-list mailing list Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list
