[MPlayer-users] Re: Matrox boards

[Arpi]

Hi,

> >  you can swap head1 and head2, so get unscaled unaccelerated image (like
> X)
> >  on head 1 and BES on head 2 (TV). see TVout/independ script.
> 
> Do you mean that you would also loose 2D-acceleration on head 1 ?
yes :(

> Or do you say "unaccelerated" only for video ?
> 
> Certainly, loosing 2D-accel would give lousy X performance, no ?
> (for normal X, not video)

yes, very very slow
reminds me on ISA vga cards age...

matroxfb doesn't provide any acceleration on CRTC2 (mapped to monitor when
CRTC1 (with BES) is mapped to TV), at least half year ago when i last tried.


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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