Corbin Simpson wrote: > René Rebe wrote: > >> Aaron Plattner wrote: >> >>> On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 09:26:11AM -0800, Henry-Nicolas Tourneur wrote: >>> >>> >>>> I would like to know if there are any plans to add XVideo support for G90 >>>> cards to the nvidia free 2D driver. >>>> >>>> >>> I'm afraid not. XV on those GPUs requires the 3D engine, and setting that >>> up is too complicated to be within the scope of that driver. >>> >>> >> Which are just other words for "we do not want open source guys to know how >> to do that", hm? >> > > Hey, c'mon. xf86-video-nv is only a modesetting DDX; it's only there in > order to provide basic functionality out-of-the-box rather than force > users to use *shudder* xf86-video-vesa. > > The nouveau project appears to have Xv for some NV50 cards; maybe you > should check that out. > I live and contribute in the open source world for over a decade, of course I know the nouveau driver.
However, some specs from NVidia (as Intel and AMD[ATi] learned to publish) would help on that matter. -- René Rebe - ExactCODE GmbH - Europe, Germany, Berlin http://exactcode.de | http://t2-project.org | http://rene.rebe.name _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
