radeon driver: checkpoint

Alex Deucher alexdeucher at gmail.com
Fri Mar 17 09:06:31 PST 2006


On 3/17/06, David Gómez <dabisu at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Alex,
>
> On 3/17/06, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > By the way is Xvideo overlay working for anyone with an X300? I just
> > > get a blank screen, and xvideo is enabled according to xvinfo...
> >
> > perhaps this is another case of the wrong crtc being used.  does
> > toggling the XV_SWITCHCRT Xv attribute make the video display
> > properly? you can use xvattr or a similar app to change the
> > attributes.
>
> Thanks! :) That fixed the Xvideo problem. Why it's not XV_ SWITCHCRT
> enabled by default in the driver?
>

It's not an enabled/disabled thing.  that attribute toggles which crtc
the overlay is sourced to.  The overlay defaults to crtc1.  for some
reason crtc2 is driving your monitor.  Do you have a second monitor
attached?  Can you post your Xorg log?

Alex

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> David Gómez
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