Subject: Re: fxtv and direct video?
To: Matthias Scheler <tron@zhadum.de>
From: Jukka Marin <jmarin@embedtronics.fi>
List: tech-x11
Date: 06/01/2004 14:43:41
On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 01:38:40PM +0200, Matthias Scheler wrote:
> > Running NetBSD 2.0beta and XFree 4.4, can't get fxtv working properly.
> 
> It works fine for me under 2.0F with XFree86 4.4.
> 
> > I have DGA enabled in XF86Config, but fxtv says
> 
> Could you please post the relevant part from your "/etc/X11/XF86Config"?

http://www.jmp.fi/~jmarin/XF86Config

It contains some old stuff that I should probably remove..

> You must load "extmod" and make sure that the part which disables
> "xfree86-dga" is turned off.

Looks ok to me.

> Have you tried if any another problem is able to use DGA? It's not
> supported for all cards and/or video modes.

How can I tell?  mplayer and gmlayer both seem to work pretty well and
use only a tiny amount of CPU playing a divx file.

Thanks,

  -jm