On Wed, 2002-02-20 at 14:30, Joe Krahn wrote:
> >
> > Until these issues are sorted out, use of the DRM for Xv should be an
> > option which defaults to off. I'll submit a patch to that effect soon.
> > Attached is a hack which disables it completely in source for now. I
> > hope this is useful for people who are bitten by this.
>
> Michel, I don't see an attachment. Did you only send it to Gustavo?
No, I just forgot to actually attach it, thanks for pointing this out.
> I would like to try the patch/hack to disable DRM for Xv.
Voil�.
> It looks like a lot of R128 users will have to avoid using
> a vanilla XFree86-4.2. That's unfortunate because xawtv with
> DRI in XF4.1 locks up the system.
It's indeed very unfortunate that these problems have only been
discovered after the 4.2.0 release. I hope that there will be 4.2 bugfix
releases and/or that the distributors will integrate fixes into their
4.2 packages.
--
Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
Index: r128_video.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/dri/xc/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/ati/r128_video.c,v
retrieving revision 1.11
diff -u -r1.11 r128_video.c
--- r128_video.c 27 Jan 2002 20:05:31 -0000 1.11
+++ r128_video.c 20 Feb 2002 10:22:51 -0000
@@ -500,7 +500,7 @@
int w
){
-#ifdef XF86DRI
+#if 0 /*def XF86DRI*/
#define BUFSIZE (R128_BUFFER_SIZE - R128_HOSTDATA_BLIT_OFFSET)
#define MAXPASSES (MAXHEIGHT/(BUFSIZE/(MAXWIDTH*2))+1)
