[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Radeon 9600 Pro vidix support

[Vladimir Mosgalin]

On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Jonas Jensen wrote:

JJ>Yes, I use the fglrx driver. I can't get the open source one to work,
JJ>maybe because agpgart in Linux 2.4 doesn't support my chipset, so I have
JJ>to use the agpgart provided the fglrx driver.

Well, as an addon, you get 3d acceleration. Even if you don't play
games, you can enjoy opengl screensavers and -vo gl2 driver ;)

JJ>Anyway, after applying Marcel Naziri's patch the YUY2 and UYVY spaces
JJ>work again. When he posted it back in January, the problem was that
JJ>there was no reliable way to detect whether the ATI or open source
JJ>driver was being used. One solution could be to just always shift the
JJ>DGA address down by 8MB. I'm sure all Radeon cards have so much memory
JJ>that it doesn't matter...

No. Well, if you don't need opengl, that's true, you can sacrifice 8M.
But the problem is, it doesn't work. I haven't tested it with current
card & driver, but with my old 8500 and 2.5.1 or 2.9.12 drivers my
computer hung up hard instantly on launch of mplayer or any opengl app
when limiting video memory. I believe it worked a very long time ago and
it works on matrox, but not in this case. Well, it was a dirty solution
anyway. That patch is a hack too, but at least it works without problems
or limitations.

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Vladimir