Thomas Winischhofer wrote:
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Anyway, here's another point: Xv was not supported *at all* on the 6326
with 4.2. Hence, video applications were using another method (probably
xshm) by default.
I added Xv support for the 5597/5598/6326/530/620 in September 2002, so
it wasn't there before 4.3. (For a detailed changelog, see
http://www.winischhofer.net/sis630old.shtml)
Now, with 4.3, applications are using Xv, which takes extra memory for
the video frame - which simply isn't available.
[ Origina submitter speaking ... ]
That would expolain what I saw ...
Option "NoXvideo" should restore the old behavior.
Indeed ...
Thanks for the idea ! I can't check results (a very bad power spike surge
took away most of my old system (power supply, motherboard, some cards) a
week ago and my new system has an ATI 9200 ...), but this is consonant with
the fact that disabling XV in some apps re-enabled them.
This is 2004. Video applications not having any fallback algorithm in
case of a failure with one of the methods are a shame at least.
Seconded ! but ...
OTOH, the point of such a system library is to avoid reimplementing the
wheel again and again. One might ague that X servers without Xv (or Xv
emulation ...) are a shame in 2004 ...
Emmanuel Charpentier