severity 416438 wishlist retitle 416438 xserver-xorg-video-intel: want XvMC support for non-i810 chipsets thank you
Brice Goglin wrote: >> I tried to set XvMCSurfaces in xorg.conf to "7", however in my >> Xorg.0.log I get: >> (WW) intel(0): Option "XvMCSurfaces" is not used >> > > The manpage seems to say that it should work. But I don't have any > actual idea whether it is supposed to work today or not. At least > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5329 seems to say it worked > before. > Looking at this more deeply, I actually noticed that XvMC is only supported on i810/i815 chipsets. That's why the option is ignored and XvMC does not work on your i855. Upstream confirmed that this is a software limitation and they plan to implement XvMC for other Intel chipsets in the future. So I am retitling this bug and changing it to a wishlist. Brice -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]