Hi! On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 10:11:38PM -0800, Mark Vojkovich wrote: > DMA won't make the transfer go any faster (it will probably > be slower unless you're using 2x+ AGP), but it won't eat the > CPU. The only drivers that do this are NVIDIA's binary > drivers and supposedly some experimental ATI drivers that > some people are working on. (I am a co-author of the DMA-enabled Xv*PutImage for r128 you mentioned) As you probably have detailed reports on how this DMA-enhanced Xv*PutImage works on nvidia, don't you have stability problems with certain players? I noticed that while I never had troubles with aviplay or mplayer, vlc was not properly programmed and one thread liked it a lot to kill a Xv*PutImage running in another thread (has likely been fixed already but I haven't checked yet), which caused total machine lockup. Xine also causes lockup from time to time. Don't you have this with nvidia too? How did you solve it (if that isn't confidential information <g>)?
BTW as for "experimental": I've been using it for about 3 months now and until
I bought some DVDs and started watching them it was super-stable, I certainly
watched over 100 divx with it. It is already supposed to be in XF86 cvs.
> MArk.
Bye,
Peter Surda (Shurdeek) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, ICQ 10236103, +436505122023
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