HD with Xvideo on i915GM (i810 driver)

[Jeffrey W. Baker]

On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 00:33 -0400, Ken Mandelberg wrote:
> I find that all of the video players (vlc, xine, mytthv) can't display 
> HD video on my Intel 915GM based laptop running with the i810 driver. 
> xine and myth show blue screens, vlc reports
> 
> X Error of failed request:  BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
>    Major opcode of failed request:  142 (XVideo)
>    Minor opcode of failed request:  19 ()
> 
> 
> I imagine all of them are seeing the same issue with XVideo at HD 
> resolution. The problem is independent of the resolution of the display, 
> and is function of the source resolution.
> 
> Any way around this?

Yes, it's in the manual page:

       Option "LinearAlloc" "integer"
              Allows  more memory for the
              offscreen  allocator.  This
              usually helps in situations
              where   HDTV   movies   are
              required  to  play  but not
              enough offscreen memory  is
              usually available. Set this
              to 6144 for upto  1920x1080
              HDTV  support.  Default 0KB
              (off).