Re: [Dri-devel] Xv and DGA with tdfx

[KT133ADP <wy...@ic...>]

Please ignore my earlier response. My information about VMware was out of
date, and they have apparently begun retailing a 'VMware Express' as a
Linux-only solution, and it will most likely continue to include DGA
support. That'll teach me to look before I leap (or research before I post).

----- Original Message -----
From: "Daryll Strauss" <da...@va...>
To: "Oliver Feiler" <ki...@gm...>
Cc: <dri...@li...>
Sent: Tuesday, 06 February, 2001 17:22
Subject: Re: [Dri-devel] Xv and DGA with tdfx


> On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 09:14:17PM +0100, Oliver Feiler wrote:
> > I have some questions regarding problems with the tdfx driver. I have
> > X 4.0.2 with a DRI CVS Jan 20th. My card is a Voodoo5 5500 AGP.
> >
> > Now 3D works, but there seem to be a lot of problems with 2D. Is the
> > Xv extension working with the driver at all? xine exits with
> >
> > set_image_format_xv(): width=640, height=360, ratio=42
> > scaled picture size : 641 x 360 (corr_factor: 1.001696)
> > Shared memory error when allocating image, exit (Ximage error)
> >
> > when trying to play a video in divx format (yes, yes, via the windoze
> > dll stuff) and xawtv doesn't work at all with xv. The X server becomes
very
> > unresponsive when I start xawtv and the only way to get the system back
is to
> > telnet and kill X. Should this actually work or am I trying to get
something
> > impossible to work?
>
> Xv was a recent addition and was somewhat hacked. I know MarkV did some
> work on fixing it, but I'm not sure what state that got to. In general,
> I'd say Xv is not really working.
>
> > Second problem is (I hope I guess it right) DGA. X's dga testprogram
> > seems to run without problems, but I have problems running vmware in
> > fullscreen mode. I already asked this question on the xfree mailinglist,
but
> > didn't get any reply. When I switch vmware in fullscreen mode with for
example
> > Windoze running X seems to crash. The X server does not any more respond
to
> > anything. Telneting into the system and rebooting is the only way to get
> > everything running again, killing X does not restore the screen. I have
no
> > idea what this problem is related to, vmware's tech support said not
more then
> > "hmm, ah yes". Is that a problem with the tdfx driver or is it supposed
to
> > work?
>
> I run VMWare. From what I can tell VMWare doesn't understand DGA version
> 2.0. I think they need to fix the application, it isn't the server's
> fault.
>
> The X server should never crash even if VMWare is doing something
> unusual/wrong. So that's a real bug.
>
> - |Daryll
>
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