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Subject: A big confusion over here - XFree 4.2
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 06:32:05 +0000
From: Gustavo Homem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello everyone:
I am having serious trouble with XFree. I have a rage 128 video card. I was
using XFree 4.1 from mdk 8.1 and the Xv extension was malfunctioning for DVDs
(was ok for other movies). It would eat too much CPU so a lot of frames were
dropped (tested with xine, vlc and mplayer), for example xine would take
around 45 % and the X server about 45% using Xv output.
I upgraded to XFree 4.2 rpms from mandrake in hope to have this problem
solved since it was working perfectly on XFree 4.03 from mdk 8.0.
X complained then about drm modules beiing old, so I downloaded the latest
one from dri.sf.net , compiled and instaled the module at /lib/modules/ ....
The result was as follows with dri enabled:
1 - Now bttv no longer freezes the system if used with dri enabled (hooray)
2 - The KDM login screen is completely messed (widgets are garbaged, not
drawn properly)
3 - This is the weird part: Xv is messed, the colors don't match the real
ones, they are completely changed and there is an horizontal strip with a
diferent color variation with xine and a lot of garbage with mplayer, X
freezes a short time after switching to and from fullscreen (except for the
mouse). Strangely during the time before X freezes there are no framedrops
but they come back with dri disabled.
What is exactly the relation of Xvideo and dri ? I never needed to have dri
enabled to have smooth XVideo before (it wasn't even available at first), my
computer has played DVDs with Xvideo since the first xine versions with gatos
drivers. Did this change with XFree 4.1 ? I also don't know what is causing
the 1,2,3 problems and I'd be glad if someone could help.
Thanks a lot
Gustavo Homem
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