No video overlay on Intel X4500HD

[Tino Keitel]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 19:35:15 +0000, Daniel Gultsch wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> 
> My major problem is that i dont have the "Intel(R) Video Overlay" but
> only the "Intel(R) Textured Video" - as reported by xvinfo | grep -i
> adaptor. This causes tearing and i really need to watch movies :-)

Then it looks like your hardware doesn't support video overlay anymore,
only textured video.

> Another problem which i think is somehow connected is that i don't have
> opengl or glx or whatever (I cant tell the difference. No 3D)
> However glxgears runs only once in a x session. It runs again (once) if
> i restart Xorg. From the second run it only reports:
> "Error: couldn't get an RGB, Double-buffered visual"
> 
> Ok I will now give you some system information:
> 
> I tried the 2.5.1-r1 Version of the driver (form gentoo) as well as the
> latest from intel 2.5.99-2
> 
> mesa and libdrm are from gentoo
> x11-libs/libdrm-2.4.3
> media-libs/mesa-7.2
> 
> uname -a
> Linux mercury 2.6.28-gentoo #7 SMP Sun Jan 11 20:30:16 Local time zone
> must be set--see zic  x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU U9400 @ 1.40GHz
> GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

I also failed to get 3D working with the intel driver 2.5.1 and kernel
2.6.28. It works with 2.6.27.

Regards,
Tino