On 8 Mar 2002, Guillaume Membré wrote:
> Ok thx all
>
> I try the new nvidia drivers, and with v4l module but there is always
> the same problem.
>
> I'm using xawtv. Should I changed ?
Is Xawtv using the the XFree86 XVideo extension? That should work.
I have a colleague using that and it's working fine for him.
I'm told xawtv is able to use XFree86's V4L Xv adaptor.
Mark.
>
> thanks
>
> Guillaume
>
> On Fri, 2002-03-08 at 01:58, Mark Vojkovich wrote:
> > On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Kenneth Culver wrote:
> >
> > > > What do you mean it doesn't support DGA properly? It supports DGA
> > > > just fine. DGA is not intended to allow access to the screen while the
> > > > server is running. If you're using it for that, you're misusing it.
> > >
> > > Well, it seems that most of the TV programs use DGA to write directly to
> > > video memory, as well as vmware2. None of these programs that do this work
> > > properly when using the nvidia driver.
> > >
> > > Ken
> >
> > All my DGA test apps work fine. I don't know about vmware, but
> > at least the TV apps misuse DGA. With DGA you're only supposed to
> > access the framebuffer while in DGA mode. Scribbling into the
> > framebuffer behind the server's back while the server has control
> > of it isn't supported. If you want to use your TV card you should
> > be using the V4L module in XFree86. It can coordinate access to
> > the framebuffer properly, and will also be able to use the video
> > overlay.
> >
> >
> > Mark.
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