HD with Xvideo on i915GM (i810 driver)

[Alan Hourihane]

On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 04:35 -0700, galenz at zinkconsulting.com wrote:
> On Oct 25, 2006, at 4:22 AM, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 04:09 -0700, galenz at zinkconsulting.com wrote:
> >> On Oct 23, 2006, at 6:18 AM, Olivier Galibert wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 09:03:12AM -0400, Ken Mandelberg wrote:
> >>>> Alan Hourihane wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> modesetting doesn't have the fixes, but in i830_video.c you have
> >>>>> to bump
> >>>>> the MAX_HEIGHT to at least 1088.
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Yes, I figured that out, It also requires upping "Option
> >>>> 'LinearAlloc"
> >>>> "integer' above 6144.
> >>>>
> >>>> I increased it a bit liberally, but would be interested in the
> >>>> 1920x1080
> >>>> calculation of 6144 to see how to compute the correct value for  
> >>>> 1088.
> >>>
> >>> An hypothesis is that 1920*1080*3/1024 = 6075, which is rather  
> >>> close.
> >>>
> >>>   OG.
> >>
> >> I've patched my i830_video.c file to have the 1088 value, but I still
> >> don't seem to have the CacheLines/LinearAlloc values right, as
> >> 1920x1080 (or rather, 1088) video still won't play. Even 8192
> >> linearalloc doesn't seem to help and actually causes X to fail to  
> >> load.
> >>
> >> I am using i810 1.6.5.
> >>
> >> Suggestions for the correct values?
> >
> > Get 1.7.2 of the driver and you won't have to do any patching. But  
> > you'd
> > still have to set LinearAlloc. You don't have to bother with  
> > CacheLines.
> >
> > Alan.
> 
> I don't see any srpms for for fc6 newer than 1.6.5. I'm not that  
> familiar with the rpms and I'm not sure how to easily whip up a new  
> RPM using 1.7.2. Are there any rpms/srpms available I'm not aware of? 

You'd have to talk to the fc6 folks about rpms.

Alan.