On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Ivo Hofacker wrote: > Dear Experts, > Since the performance of the siliconmotion driver in > XFree86 4.1.0 > is so poor (e.g. for playing videos), I've installed > the 4.1.99.5 > version (with v1.3.1 siliconmotion driver) from CVS. > The new server seems to work fine, except that xvinfo > now yields: > > X-Video Extension version 2.2 > screen #0 > no adaptors present > > while xdpyinfo confirms that the XVideo extension is > present. > > The server log files contains no erros. However, > compiling with > SMI_DEBUG I found that SMI_SetupVideo() exits > prematurely because > xf86I2CWriteVec(&(smiPortPtr->I2CDev) (line 896 of > smi_video.c) > returns 0.
Could you try this patch to get over the video decoder detection? ------------------------------------ --- smi_video.c Tue Jan 8 18:10:53 2002 +++ /home/zahn/tmp/smi_video.c Wed Jan 16 22:40:36 2002 @@ -888,8 +888,9 @@ if (!xf86I2CDevInit(&(smiPortPtr->I2CDev))) { - LEAVE_PROC("SMI_SetupVideo"); - return(NULL); + smiPortPtr->I2CDev.DevName = ""; + smiPortPtr->I2CDev.SlaveAddr = 0; + DEBUG((VERBLEV, "cannot access SAA7111\n")); } DEBUG((VERBLEV, "SAA7111 intialized\n")); ------------------------------------ I changed a lot in smi_video, so the probability is high, that I broke a few things. What video playing software are you using? > This is on a new, but low budget, laptop running > redhat 7.2. > XVideo works fine (if slow) with redhat's > XFree86-4.1.0 server. Does this laptop has a video input? If yes, do you know, what kind of video decoder it has? Corvin -- Corvin Zahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert