On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Peter Surda wrote:
> 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?
No. This has nothing to do with clients.
> 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>)?
Those are bugs in the ATI drivers.
Mark.
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