[Mplayer-users] Re: ATI Radeon VE

[Christoph H. Lampert]

Am Donnerstag, 26. Juli 2001 23:50 schrieben Sie:
> Hi!
>
> My efforts are finished. I've get something workable from XFree86 :(
> But I've found a lot of lacks and I don't know where are problems :(
>
> 1) After applying Suse's XFree86 I could get graphics only on "second head"
> It's - ok from windows and linux points but some "old" DOS games which
> use VESA (through int10h) can work only with first head so I should replug
> monitor every time when I want to use them.

Could you test TVout? Is there anything in the Docs about DVI out? 
>
> Now about problems:
> MPLAYER: works only -vo xv, x11, sdl:x11
> -dga works but too strange: I've watched in window only horizontal lines
> (like I've get overclocked vertical sync but in window :)
> -fsdga - not found.

Okay, so no DGA. Fine with me, xv is better anyway. 

> Well: when I watched well famous 405.avi I've get at bottom of picture
> several strange green lines (like on nVidia). Also I've found some strange
> transparent diagonalled stripes which have green and pink colors.
> But it's not problem of unquantize - on S3Virge everythink - ok).
>
> When I've watched DVD then in places where store is movied (even slowly)
> I've get very crumpled pictures with horizontal jaming. (Under WinNT these
> problems don't exist).
>
> AFAIK it would be better to find out solution these problems in Linux's
> drivers, but it makes useless any video software under Linux with this
> card.

That's bad :-( Maybe you should ask the driver's developers about it? 

The modules should be open source, and SuSE support is not bad, either. 
Don't give up on them. These are the very first drivers that support the card 
at all. Maybe you will never see hardware MPEG functions supported in Linux 
drivers, but still the drivers will get better. 

And still, if you want to get rid of the card (e.g. swap again ATI 
XPer at Work..) 

gruel

-- 
Christoph Lampert, gruel at gmx.de

"Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to 
everything it touches. That's the way that the license works." - Steve Balmer

"Epsilon < 0" - chl 

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