On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 12:42 -0500, Alex Deucher wrote:
> On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 16:17:58 -0800, Daniel J. Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 
> > I am having a problem unrelated to the new patches. Some time recently
> > xv has started being really screwy (black and white except for
> > splotches that are miss-colored). Disabling BCIforXV in xorg.conf fixes
> > this issue. What does disabling this do? Is there a significant
> > performance hit?
> 
> this option uses the BCI engine for mastered image transfers.  It
> should help performance on savage4 chips, however, it causes problems
> sometimes.  I should probably make it an Xv option rather than a
> server option so users can turn it on and off more easily.

That would be a bad idea if it can cause serious problems like hangs or
worse. No idea if it can though, just wanted to point this out in case.


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