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"));
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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
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