[Xpert]Genlocking X

2002-06-25 Thread Devrim Erdem
Hi, I want to genlock two Nvidia Xfree running PCs to an external source. I am looking for a hardware or software solution. I appreciate any links or pointers on the subject ? If there is none, I am looking into writing a software genlock but I am clueless about how Xfree manages genlock (

Re: [Xpert]Genlocking X

2002-06-25 Thread Christian Berger
Devrim Erdem schrieb: > > Hi, > > I want to genlock two Nvidia Xfree running PCs to an external source. I > am looking for a hardware or software solution. I appreciate any links > or pointers on the subject ? Well there is a hardly documented feature on the feature connector which might be u

Re: [Xpert]Genlocking X

2002-06-25 Thread Joe Krahn
Christian Berger wrote: > > Devrim Erdem schrieb: > > > > Hi, > > > > I want to genlock two Nvidia Xfree running PCs to an external source. I > > am looking for a hardware or software solution. I appreciate any links > > or pointers on the subject ? > > Well there is a hardly documented featur

Re: [Xpert]Genlocking X

2002-06-25 Thread Max
> > >>If there is none, I am looking into writing a software genlock but I am >>clueless about how Xfree manages genlock ( or VSync and HSync ). >> >> > >I'm not even sure if that's possible by software, I mean you would have >to tell the graphics card when to start the image quite acurately.

Re: [Xpert]Genlocking X

2002-06-25 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Devrim Erdem wrote: > Hi, > > I want to genlock two Nvidia Xfree running PCs to an external source. I > am looking for a hardware or software solution. I appreciate any links > or pointers on the subject ? Genlock is a hardware feature, and one that current NVIDIA ca

Re: [Xpert]Genlocking X

2002-06-25 Thread Max
> > >> Hi, >> >>I want to genlock two Nvidia Xfree running PCs to an external source. I >>am looking for a hardware or software solution. I appreciate any links >>or pointers on the subject ? >> >> > > Genlock is a hardware feature, and one that current NVIDIA cards >do not support. > >

Re: [Xpert]Genlocking X

2002-06-25 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Max wrote: > >>If there is none, I am looking into writing a software genlock but I am > >>clueless about how Xfree manages genlock ( or VSync and HSync ). > >> > >> > So the graphics card driver manages the VSync signal. Is this correct ? > > If that is the case, I gue

Re: [Xpert]Genlocking X

2002-06-26 Thread Tom Parker
Vladimir Dergachev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>What VSync signal? XFree86 runs in userspace and gets no interrupts. >> >If someone wants to experiment with VSync take a look at km driver at >http://gatos.sf.net/. So far it is for Radeons only, but if interested >developers have only mach64

Re: [Xpert]Genlocking X

2002-06-26 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
On 26 Jun 2002, Tom Parker wrote: > Is there a standard double buffering api that you hook into, or is > it something that will have to be impliemented on an application by > application basis? There are two X extensions which support double-buffering: GLX and DOUBLE-BUFFER. The GLX exten

Re: [Xpert]Genlocking X

2002-06-26 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: > On 26 Jun 2002, Tom Parker wrote: > > > Is there a standard double buffering api that you hook into, or is > > it something that will have to be impliemented on an application by > > application basis? > > There are two X extensions which supp

Re: [Xpert]Genlocking X

2002-06-26 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Mark Vojkovich wrote: >Unfortunately, I don't think DBE has any driver hooks so that > it can be synchronized with the retrace. The implementation in > the SI is merely an unsynchronized copy from a pixmap to a window. > I'd sync it in the NVIDIA driver, if there were a