[MPlayer-dev-eng] fbdev:vidix / vidix bug

[Alex Beregszaszi]

On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 11:33:11AM +0300, Nick Kurshev wrote:
> Hello, Alex!
> 
> On Wed, 16 Jan 2002 15:49:33 +0100 you wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 10:36:30AM +0300, Nick Kurshev wrote:
> > > Hello, Felix!
> > > 
> > > On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 23:37:11 +0100 you wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Tuesday, 15. January 2002 18:34, you wrote:
> > > > > It's the Question that drives us, Felix Buenemann :
> > > > > > Things I did that far was compiling mplayer current-cvs with vidix and
> > > > > > installing libdha.so into /usr/lib/ and running ldconfig.
> > > > >
> > > > > ;)
> > > > > Also copy *_vid*.so to $prefix/lib/mplayer/vidix
> > > > yea, but shouldn't fsck the system if I don't do :)
> > > > 
> > > > argh my 44days uptime on the laptop are gone with the wind (or better reboot) 
> > > > :(
> > > We should 1000L to Alex for genfb driver - remove it.
> > 
> > genfb isn't completed, don't use it.
> > 
> It' impossible :(
> Did you even try to study vidixlib logic?
> It probes all drivers and load first which was probed without errors.
> I said and say: This driver MUST be NEVER finished.
> It violates ideology of VIDIX.
> Since if user has loaded linux's framebuffer driver then this driver will be
> always successfully probed. But who need it? dev/fb0 doesn't provide any HW
> acceleration as VIDIX should do.
It provides hw accel.... read linux/fb.h

> VIDIX should provide native support but not generic.
> (Even vga_vid is not good for VIDIX).
> In short: Driver MUST be depended from VENDOR_ID.
> OTOH - if you want something implement there are some ineteresting tasks:
> 1. Should we support multihead card by one driver (I mean should we remove mga_crtc2_vid)
> 2. How we can handle situation when computer has installed two identical video card?
> 3. Should we pass FPS info into driver?
> > > > -- 
> > > > Best Regards,
> > > > 	Atmos
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