[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] for pink screen vidix bug on RADEON VE QY

[James Stembridge]

On Friday 10 Jan 2003 15:36, Ruben Garcia wrote:
> >You don't mention in your message, but I suspect you are running X in
> > 16-bit.
>
> I am, yes. Funny you know more about my configuration than I do.
> It's an excelent sign, though.

Nothing too amazing, just that the rage_ckey_model makes the overlay (kind of) 
work if the incorrect colour key is set in 16-bit.

> I'd like to say, though, that since no Radeon VE QZ users have noticed the
> pink screen bug, may be we shouldn't be so fast in changing the lines
> referring to it.

True, I was just working on the assumption that cards of a similar kind work 
in the same way. No bug reports is probably due to either there being no ve 
qz users or that they're all using 24-bit. Correct me on this anyone!

> Right. I'm now on a 8bpp X, and I get:
> 
> VO: [xvidix] 160x112 => 160x120 Planar YV12
> Sorry, this (8) color depth is not supported

Yes that's the expected behaviour. Somewhere in the xvidix vo there's a 
restriction on bpp > 8. Not sure if there is any good reason for this.

James.