Re: xfree DGA module and vmware
Alejandro Diego Garin said: > Hi all! > > Someone know anything about a DGA extension needed for vmware to > use fullscreen mode? vmware has always required DGA for fullscreen mode. in many X 3.3.6 servers it was built in. x4 is very modular. vmware even had special X servers with DGA support for the early days of vmware when some cards(like my #9 Imagine 128 Series 2) lacked DGA support in the official xfree tree. most all games(fullscreen) require dga as well. which is a big selling point for xfree as the competition doesn't have comparable support for DGA(Xinside will tell you DGA is too dangerous - and it is dangerous, one wrong move and the system can crash. but its all we got) nate
Re: xfree DGA module and vmware
On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Alejandro Diego Garin wrote: > Hi all! > > Someone know anything about a DGA extension needed for vmware to use > fullscreen mode? > > I am using XFree4 now and this problem didn't happen with XFree3. > > I looked the xfree log, > > # cat XFree86.0.log | grep DGA > (II) Loading extension XFree86-DGA > It seem to be loaded i donk now The issue is purely with the XFree drivers. Some of the XFree4 drivers don't have the acceleration that XFree3 did. In fact XF4 doesn't even support my old ATI GPT (Mach64) in hi-res modes so I drove downtown and bought a GeForce2. Just an hour ago I found a version of the ATI driver that does support accelerated DGA and now I get full screen acceleration on my laptop. http://www.linuxvideo.org/gatos/ My NVidia cards have the same issue. I haven't tried the latest NV drivers to know if they have proper DGA support yet or not. ...RickM...
xfree DGA module and vmware
Hi all! Someone know anything about a DGA extension needed for vmware to use fullscreen mode? I am using XFree4 now and this problem didn't happen with XFree3. I looked the xfree log, # cat XFree86.0.log | grep DGA (II) Loading extension XFree86-DGA It seem to be loaded i donk now cheers, -- Alejandro Diego Garin GNU/Linux user #151577 counter.li.org Running Debian/Sid kernel 2.4.13-686
