[Openchrome-users] XvMC and VM800

[Ivor Hewitt]

On Sunday 19 February 2006 19:05, Steffen Sobiech wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I can't get XvMC to work on my Via VM800. The X driver just doesn't
> register it. I'm using the openchrome-20060206 drivers with their
> respective libviaXvMC on xorg-6.9.
> /etc/X11/XvMCConfig is present and correctly configured, DRI (and DRM) seem
> to work (I can even get 3D acceleration), however standard Xv does not (Xv
> says it does not support my chipset).
>
Xv for VM800 is in currently progress and XvMC won't work until Xv works.

> Another thing that keeps me from using openchrome right now is the long
> time (about 30 seconds) it takes to switch from and to the virtual console
> the X server is using. With fbdev drivers, it only takes about 2 seconds.
>
Haven't seen that before, is anything using CPU while it happens? It should be 
a couple of seconds. See if anything appears if you tail the logs from 
another machine while you make the switch.

-- 
Ivor Hewitt.