XvMC on savage

[Alex Deucher]

On 1/8/07, Dag Nygren <dag at newtech.fi> wrote:
> > On 1/8/07, Dag Nygren <dag at newtech.fi> wrote:
> > >
> > > > AFAIK there is no working XvMC for savage.
> > >
> > > I was afraid so. Have to go back to xorg 8.2 then, it works there.
> > >
> >
> > XvMC has never been supported on savage chips.  S3 release some code
> > years ago, but no one could get it to work and it only supported a
> > subset of the twister/prosavage IGP chips.
>
> Well...
>
> It has worked here with my MythTV for about one year, until I some days ago
> upgraded my OS, which forced Xorg 7.1.1 on me.
>
> The CPU load increased by 40% (absolute) and the picture quality went down
> quite
> a bit.
> The same thing happened with 8.2 without the XVMC part.
>

Something else must have changed because it has never been supported.
You might try using git-bisect on the savage driver to find out what
change caused the problem.

Alex

> Best
> Dag
>
>