Re: [Xpert]Random X crashes or total lockups

2001-10-21 Thread Matthias Dahl
Hey there... ]) powered by LINUX, preemptible kernel 2.4.12-ac3 ([ Not necessarily, for some strange reason when I tell vlc to go fullscreen it causes a X lockup as well (screen goes blue), I have to kill vlc and X over ssh. No other player (mplayer, aviplay) does that on my r128.

[Xpert]Re: XVideo and vsync

2001-09-23 Thread Matthias Dahl
On Fri, 21 Sep 2001 23:28:50 +0200, Peter Surda wrote: I vaguely remember that for mga you can use /dev/mga_vid. I think there is a generic interface somewhere in X but don't know where. The /dev/mga_vid is a specific device that belongs to a kernel driver which you can use to directly

[Xpert]Re: XVideo and vsync

2001-09-23 Thread Matthias Dahl
On Sun, 23 Sep 2001 16:10:50 +0200, Peter Surda wrote: As he also pointed out that hardware automatically does this. That depends on the hardware - matrox cards unfortunately don't do this automatically. And I guess if it did, some people would complain about it because they want the best

[Xpert]Re: XVideo and vsync

2001-09-23 Thread Matthias Dahl
On Sun, 23 Sep 2001 14:59:14 -0400, didier wrote: No MGA can do that without polling, If you only want to wait the next vsync. Interesting. Without waiting for a hardware IRQ or anything like that? I just mailed a patch at [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you don't mind and if it's not too much

[Xpert]Re: XVideo and vsync

2001-09-23 Thread Matthias Dahl
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 05:38:52PM +0200, Peter Surda wrote: Well, you can't get higher frame rate than your monitor can go can you? Unless your brain is plugged directly to the videoram :-) Um, pluging myself directly to the video ram... hey... good idea. :-))) So the signal is generated

[Xpert]XVideo and vsync

2001-09-21 Thread Matthias Dahl
Hey there... ]) powered by Linux 2.4.8 ([ I have run into a problem and I hope some of you guys can help me out. :) Thanks in advance for your help and time! Is it possible to do some vsync synchronization with the XVideo (or any other) extension? I