On Mon, 28 May 2001 15:12:56 +0200
Peter Surda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 03:48:42PM +0300, Silviu Marin-Caea wrote:
> > I run XFree with "nv" driver to view clips and "nvidia" to play
games.
> > This sucks, wouldn't you agree?
> This sucks because my roommate has a nvidia card and both aviplay and
quake3
> work with the same driver.
Maximized and in full screen, aviplay seems to work.
In window, not really (0.6 CVS this morning).
1. Artifacts inside and outside the movie window
2. Window height starts to grow (yes! after half a minute I have a very
long and thin movie window) This does not happen with the "nv" driver.
> > The original question was, if you were to access to the source of
the
> > nvidia drivers, wouldn't it be easier for you to fix avifile to work
> > well with nvidia cards?
> My response is: RTFM
I am willing to do that, but what manual are you refering to?
> I know this from 1st hand, I got one ATI card in my notebook and one
in my
> multimedia jukebox, am subscribed to gatos-devel (the mailing list for
> opensource drivers for ATI cards), am following the progress very
closely, I
> took a look at the driver source a couple of times and tried to
manipulate the
> registers to get the frellin' tv-out workin' which resulted in a
couple of
> freezes.
Maybe pointing to ATI as an example wasn't a good choice from my part.
Forget I mentioned ATI. Unfortunately I don't have another example.
What's Matrox' position on open source? :-)
> > What do you think?
> You need a reality check. You'd do much better job bitchin' in the
right
> direction, i.e. ATI.
The enemy of "great" is "good enough". The nvidia situation is good
enough, open source drivers would make it great.
> Let the flamewar begin :-)
Take off every zig.. For great justice!
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