Greetings,

In an earlier thread [Xv without the nvidia binary driver], Mark Vojkovich
> On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Andy Ritger wrote:
> > On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, ephemeron wrote:
> > 
> > > With XFree86 4.1. it appears that downloading the nVidia binary 
> > > drivers
> > > is the only way to get Xv working. Which can be a problem for those 
> > > who aren't using an RPM-based system.
> > 
> > There are also tarballs available on NVIDIA's website.
>
>   And the "nv" driver in XFree86 4.1 does support Xv for GeForce cards.
> Not TNT/TNT2 cards, however.

Why not? The chip supports it (quite well) and it works with the binary 
NVidia driver.

I've got a Riva TNT based videocard and quite happy with it; unfortunately 
it is simply impossible to get the binary driver to co-exist in a dualhead 
setup (Riva TNT AGP vs. Trio 3D/2X PCI). Either I have to use the 'vesa' 
driver for the Trio card (which eliminates all the extras and is 
sloooooow), or use 's3virge' and have it bomb on the GLX initialization. 
The combination 'nv'/'s3virge' works like a charm (ironically, the XV 
extension works on the S3 card...)

If it's just a matter of trying a few things in the C code of the nv 
driver, I'd be happy to try. I'm quite fluent in C and willing to program 
and test.

 - Nemosoft

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