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<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Jouni.Lohikoski@iki.fi">Jouni.Lohikoski@iki.fi</a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">First of al, NVidia driver is open-source. You can run a package with
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No it is not. "Open-source" is something else but "partly open source".
If Nvidia driver really would be open source, RivaTV driver developers
wouldn't have problems to get Video-IN working with nvidia binary
driver. Now there is, and Video-IN does not work in Nvidia cards with
nvidia drivers. Please avoid buying Nvidia cards.
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I think there is no need to be so aggresive against rather good
hardware supplier. Many their<br>
cards are good enough to buy. I own FX5200 clone and have no problem
with xv, however, <br>
xvidix DO have problems, it is very slow with that particular board.<br>
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<pre wrap="">--extract-only
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or -x. Please notice the files in usr/lib/. If you have source code for
those files, I am sure very many people would be thankful if you would
share them.
Part of the driver (which uses nvidia hardware) is in .so files, and those
are binary only.
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Yes, you are right, I did not noticed it is a main part, not
supplemental. <br>
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<pre wrap="">If problem persists after downloading -7174 version of a driver,
post xvinfo output here.
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I have had the problem with v7174 driver. When I have it next time, I'll
try to debug more.
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Try to get xvinfo output BEFORE failure and AFTER. I suspect some
memory leak in driver code,<br>
try to open large movie, maybe it will lead to failure faster?<br>
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Philipp<br>
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// jouni</pre>
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