i915 uses only 8mb video ram and disables xv, dri

Alan Hourihane alanh at fairlite.demon.co.uk
Fri Jul 22 07:44:16 PDT 2005


On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 16:10 +0200, Thorben Kröger wrote:
> On Friday 22 July 2005 11:55, Thorben Kröger wrote:
> > I have tried almost everything, but I just can't get xvideo and direct
> > rendering to work with the i810 driver using Xorg 6.8.99.15.
> 
> Alan Hourihane has hunted down the error and with his patch (attached) applied 
> I now have xvideo and direct rendering working and get 1700fps with 
> glxgears :-)

I'm still tracking the real problem as it appears to be something
mismatched between the kernel's idea of the agp_info struct and user
spaces.

The fix just worksaround/masks the real problem, so I'm not committing
that just yet.

Alan.



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