[Intel-gfx] How to enable XvMC?

Robert Lowery rglowery at exemail.com.au
Mon Mar 23 01:47:48 CET 2009


> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to enable XvMC with xf86-video-intel-2.6.99.902 on my GM965.
>
> In /var/log/Xorg.0.log, I see
>
> (==) intel(0): Intel XvMC decoder disabled
>
> I tried adding Options XvMC and XvMCSurfaces to xorg.conf, but neither
> changes anything. The log even reports that '(WW) intel(0): Option
> "XvMCSurfaces" is not used'.
Are you using DRI2?

If so, you might be running into
32e7d47925b445a85847d77651b258e117aaaffe

which contains the comment
/* Disable XvMC on DRI2 for now */

>
> During the configure stage, it prints "checking whether to include
> XvMC support... yes" so I cannot understand why I cannot enable it. I
> have libXvMC-1.0.4 installed.
>
> I've also filed a bug here,
> http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20790
>
> Thanks,
>
> Matt Turner
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