[MPlayer-advusers] xvidix broken on Radeon

[Sascha Sommer]

On Mittwoch, 15. Oktober 2008, Sascha Sommer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mittwoch, 15. Oktober 2008, Christian Ohm wrote:
> > On Wednesday, 15 October 2008 at 19:29, Sascha Sommer wrote:
> > > Xvidix on radeon seems to be broken indeed. I'll try to find out why
> > > and when it broke. Unfortunatelly I do not know if your new card will
> > > work with vidix.
> >
> > As I said, I don't think some change in xvidix itself broke it, but some
> > change in the X driver.
> >
> > > It is also possible that
> > > a) newer cards no longer contain the overlay unit
> > > b) newer cards require different programming.
> >
> > The X800 is a R400, which should be quite similar to the R300s and still
> > has the overlay unit. I don't know about the programming, but the PCI ID
> > (1002:5d4f) is in some vidix file, so I guess the card should work.
>
> Most ids were added without testing them afaik.
>
> Attached patch fixes the xvidix problem for me.
>
>

Fixed in svn.

Regards

Sascha