On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 14:39, Brouard Nicolas wrote: > > While googling I found a recent tvo_set command line program from > Federico Ulivi (http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/gatos/ati.2/) > and he just wrote me the following excerpt: > > "Hi, > I gave a look at your question and I think that in principle it should > be possible to implement a "paneloff" switch through something like > tvo_set. You should create a new xv attribute in radeon_video.c and > connect this attribute to the part in radeon_driver.c where paneloff > logic is located (e.g. you could call a function in radeon_driver.c > whenever your xv attribute is modified). > Once this is in place, it should be very simple to change tvo_set to > modify this attribute under user command.
That would work, but switching outputs on or off doesn't really have anything to do with XVideo. > I also found i810switch http://vorlon.ces.cwru.edu/~ames/i810switch/ > which concerns another chipset than the radeon but with the same current > need. That seems to bang the chip directly, nasty. Current DRI and XFree86 CVS have a generic mechanism to pass messages to drivers, but I don't know if or how that can be used from clients. -- Earthling Michel DÃnzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer Libre software enthusiast | http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
