Re: "xv" video with intel graphics?

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 04:53:39PM -0500, John D. Baker wrote:
> I thought it used to work, but perhaps that was with the 2014 intel driver
> that could use SNA on my hardware (intel G41)...
> 
> Playing a video file with 'mplayer' or 'mpv' defaults to "xv" video output
> but this just displays a black window.
> 
> Forcing "-vo x11" by command line or system default config file (which is
> another story) works, but nags with deprecation warnings.
> 
> Does "-vo xv" work on any intel graphics devices?  If so, which ones and
> under what conditions?

works for me on netbsd-9, with a:
[     1.000821] pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0: vendor 8086 product 29b0 (rev. 0
x02)
[     1.000821] agp0 at pchb0: G33-family chipset
[     1.000821] agp0: detected 7164k stolen memory
[     1.000821] agp0: aperture at 0xd0000000, size 0x10000000
[     1.000821] i915drmkms0 at pci0 dev 2 function 0: vendor 8086 product 29b2 (
rev. 0x02)
[     6.691551] kern info: [drm] Memory usable by graphics device = 1024M
[     6.691551] kern info: [drm] Supports vblank timestamp caching Rev 2 (21.10.
2013).
[     6.691551] kern info: [drm] Driver supports precise vblank timestamp query.
[     6.691551] kern info: [drm] failed to find VBIOS tables
[     6.691551] i915drmkms0: interrupting at ioapic0 pin 16 (i915drmkms0)
[     6.701635] kern info: [drm] initialized overlay support
[     6.741677] intelfb0 at i915drmkms0

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