[MPlayer-users] xvidix problem with atis firegl drivers solved

[Marcel Naziri]

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Hello,

> > I shifted the DGA adress for mplayer about 5MB. funny thing is: the more
> > the dga frame is outside the 5MB border, the more the movie is displayed
> > correctly.
>
> great.
> what about limiting vram memory used by Xserver (Option "RamSize" ...) ?
> we'e using that with matrox cards to avoid conflicts of pixmap cache and
> mga_vid

yes, i tried this twice. with 48 and 32 MB instead of using the full 64MB. 
playing movies with xvidix:radeon_vid.so hangs whole system... :(

> > maybe it's possible to add something like vidix/drivers/fglrx_vid.c to
> > the sourcetree with this patch leaving the radeon_vid.c untouched. (so I
> > have not to patch it every time a new mplayer version is realeased :))))
>
> nonsense.
> but you could make a patch to enable this 5mb reserving for cards with
> given PCI IDs (pci ids of the firegl cards).

why nonsense? it's not a specific card! i have an hercules board with ati 
8500le so it's an Radeon QL not a real firegl card (they are too expensive 
:)). but I use the firegl drivers from ati, which supports also R200 
chipbased board - so mine -, instead of the radeon drivers bundled with 
Xfree, because they seem to be stable and they have very good 3dfx 
performance.
well, i dunno how to check which xserver-driver is loaded? so it might be the 
easiest to offer an additional module for people like me using fglrx-drivers 
to start mplayer with -vo xvidix:fglrx_vid.so, isn't it?

greets
  zwobbl

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