I've been trying to get X-Video support working for the Radeon 8500. Although there were some changes made to the Radeon driver in CVS early this month, as of a 2002-06-23 CVS checkout, X-Video support still doesn't work: applications that try to use it just display a black area.
Since I'm using Red Hat 7.3, I looked at XFree86-4.2.0-51.22.src.rpm from Rawhide, but it doesn't have working X-Video support for the Radeon 8500, either. I noticed Ryan Lovett's post: On Sun, 16 Jun 2002, Ryan Lovett wrote: > To answer my own Xv question, I found a patch: > http://quark.fsb.hr/vedran/xfree86/radeon/radeon_xv > which applies to 4.2.0 and enables XVideo support. I went and grabbed the patch, but it didn't apply cleanly to the 2002-06-23 CVS checkout. So, I manually applied the patch, integrating the changes into my 2002-06-23 CVS checkout as best I could, and then rebuilt XFree86. The result: X-Video works! As an added bonus, the screen corruptions I was seeing when iconifying/de-iconifying under enlightenment are also gone. (Enlightenment animates iconifying/de-iconifying; it may have been using X-Video to do that, or the X-Video support patch may have squashed some other bug that enlightenment was tickling.) I've made a patch that is the result of integrating the patch located at http://quark.fsb.hr/vedran/xfree86/radeon/radeon_xv into the 2002-06-23 CVS snapshot. It's available here: http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/qralston/XFree86-CVS-2002-06-23-ati-radeon-8500-xv.patch Could this patch please be applied to CVS? (I'm sure there are probably some things that will need to be cleaned up with it, but at least after a day of using it, I haven't encountered any problems yet...) Thanks, -- James Ralston, Information Technology Software Engineering Institute Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
