Michael Stephen Hanni writes:
> G'day Egbert,
>
>
> The funny thing is that using either cursor I get this behavior. I'll look
> into this, maybe I did something that made the hardware cursor be used
> regardless of the option setting.
>
Hmm, that's funny. It is possible that the cursor Image is goffed
before. You usually have a foreground and a background mask. If
one of the masks is goofed you get this behavior regardless if
you use sw or hw cursor.
> BTW, I'm working off CVS HEAD.
>
> >> Oh, I haven't really touched this but XVideo is still fscked. I'm getting
> >> BadAllocs all over the place.
> >
> > Please see my last email about this.
>
> Yeah, what you said sounds absolutely correct. I've disabled the
> CHIPSVideoInit/Reset in my build.
You should not have to. I assume you do that to force your application
to do a fallback to SW rendering. This however should always happen
if Xv signals an error.
>
> >> I had to mess around with the aperture, but I think I've got the aperture
> >> and the MMIOBase setup correctly now. By dropping a slightly modified
> >> ct_BltHiQV.h from the last Xpmac tarball into the latest XFree86 source
> >> everything works nicely.
> >
> > If you send me the patch I'll check this.
>
> I'll do this when I get back to the other side (i.e. Linux). Beware this
> ct_BltHiQV.h has some interesting looking asm code to accomplish the ct*
> macros. I'm pretty sure this is powerpc specific so it may not be something
> you would want to put into the "official" source. However, the bonus of this
> is that I had to make very few changes to the driver as it currently stands,
> plus I got all the accelerated functions for "free" -- save for the
> aforementioned WritePixmap.
I will take a look. We can (however it is discouraged) use
#ifdef __powerpc__ .
>
> Anyhow, I'll clean it up and send it to you tonight.
Thanks!
>
> I'm using this modified chips driver as my default X setup and I haven't
> noticed anything broken or unusual. It seems to be snappier and smoother
> than the FBDev driver I had been using, but that may just be the placebo
> effect at work. I'll run some x11perf tests and check it out.
>
OK, great!
Thanks,
Egbert.
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