On Sun, 28 Apr 2002, Peter Finderup Lund wrote:
> I upgraded to XFree86 4.2.0 from source a couple of days ago but was
> disappointed to find that the nv driver doesn't really support Xv for my
> video card.
>
> I looked at the CVS sources yesterday and it seems to be only NV_ARCH_10
> and up that support it... I think that translates into GeForce and newer.
>
> Apparently my card is a member of the NV_ARCH_4 group, having the card id
> 002D.
>
> The driver looks surprisingly clean and the Xv part in nv_video.c that
> actually plays with the hardware is a lot smaller than I thought.
>
> If the TNT2 hardware is similar to the GeForce hardware it should be quite
> simple to fix.
>
> Does anybody (Mark Vojkovich?) know what I should change in the driver to
> make it work?
>
I'm told that pre GeForce cards have different overlay hardware
that is more difficult to program. I've never really looked into
it and wasn't planning on it since I don't have docs for the
deprecated TNT overlay engine.
Mark.
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