Alex Deucher wrote: > On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Gordan Bobic <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm trying to get XV acceleration to work on the secondary display on my >> laptop, and I'm not having any success. Playing videos with XV >> acceleration on the primary display works fine, but on the secondary it >> always falls back to X11 rendering which is sufficiently slow that the >> frame drop makes it unusable. >> >> I tried switching the layout around (making Screen1 0 0, Screen0 LeftOf >> Screen1) and that didn't make any difference. I also tried: >> Option "Primary" "true" on Screen1, but that didn't help, either. >> >> The VGA controller is an ageing Rage Mobility M4, and in lspci it shows >> up as a single device, but specifying an additional r128 device section >> without device ID and attaching Screen/Monitor sections to it gets the >> external screen up. >> >> How can I get the external monitor to be the primary (actually primary, >> not just by desktop icon placement appearance) and thus get XV >> acceleration on that instead of the laptop's built in screen? > > It's a limitation of the r128 driver right now. The video overlay > only works with the first display controller which is currently > hardcoded to drive the laptop flatpanel. I had a branch at one time > in my repo on fdo to add support for r128 to the radeon driver, > including textured video support for r128 (which will work on > either/both head(s)), however, I need to find where I had that tree > since we lost /home on fdo.
I see. So best case, about 2 years before it makes it into a stable distribution? Gordan _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
