Ok thx all

I try the new nvidia drivers, and with v4l module but there is always
the same problem.

I'm using xawtv. Should I changed ?

thanks 

Guillaume

On Fri, 2002-03-08 at 01:58, Mark Vojkovich wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Kenneth Culver wrote:
> 
> > >    What do you mean it doesn't support DGA properly?  It supports DGA
> > > just fine.  DGA is not intended to allow access to the screen while the
> > > server is running.  If you're using it for that, you're misusing it.
> > 
> > Well, it seems that most of the TV programs use DGA to write directly to
> > video memory, as well as vmware2. None of these programs that do this work
> > properly when using the nvidia driver.
> > 
> > Ken
> 
>    All my DGA test apps work fine.  I don't know about vmware, but
> at least the TV apps misuse DGA.  With DGA you're only supposed to
> access the framebuffer while in DGA mode.  Scribbling into the
> framebuffer behind the server's back while the server has control
> of it isn't supported.  If you want to use your TV card you should
> be using the V4L module in XFree86.  It can coordinate access to
> the framebuffer properly, and will also be able to use the video
> overlay. 
> 
> 
>                       Mark.
> 
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