Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 02:26:17 +0300 From: Yuri Pankov <yuri.pankov@gmail.com> To: Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xorg and nVidia GeForce 8200 (MCP78S) - a better driver than vesa? Message-ID: <20090102232617.GA72474@darklight.homeunix.org> In-Reply-To: <20090102234310.d71300be.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> References: <20081227003237.b719d42b.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> <20090102234310.d71300be.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>
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On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 11:43:10PM +0100, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > A small update on the situation. > > On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 00:32:37 +0100 > Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> wrote: > > > Currently I am using the vesa driver, which works. > > Do anyone know of a way to get a better Xorg driver working? > > Another workaround: I had a nVidia GeForce 8500 GT gfx card laying > about, so I used that. At least the Xorg 'nv' driver uses it. But I > don't know if it is any better than using the 'vesa' driver: > root@kg-v2# DISPLAY=:0.0 xvinfo > X-Video Extension version 2.2 > screen #0 > no adaptors present > root@kg-v2# DISPLAY=:0.0 xdriinfo > Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0". > Screen 0: not direct rendering capable. > > > References: > > 1) http://tingox.googlepages.com/asus_v2-m3n8200 > -- > Torfinn You could try adding PCI id of your 8200 gfx card to src/nv_driver.c in xf86-video-nv sources. And, according to the author of nv driver, it doesn't support Xv extension on all G8x GPUs. [1] [1] http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11586#c2 HTH, Yuri
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