From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 2 23:57:42 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A84431065677 for ; Fri, 2 Jan 2009 23:57:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yuri.pankov@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ew0-f21.google.com (mail-ew0-f21.google.com [209.85.219.21]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09A388FC14 for ; Fri, 2 Jan 2009 23:57:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yuri.pankov@gmail.com) Received: by ewy14 with SMTP id 14so7845687ewy.19 for ; Fri, 02 Jan 2009 15:57:40 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:received:received :x-authentication-warning:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id :references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition :in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=8MhKU9l9ypSp9FVZ0gjtVScAkI8ogVXrZ/DkMCoSsk8=; b=aL7+rkNCgX+0FNgQmgBjoW0kTYHW5uHfp96G0HbLvBe29Gcu3htiiwWqq33G8ZUHFK gkM727kxn5EScjE/4QAmArLuAS6yV/jxGssowhI8xYISV+oOrbwAbTJAVbKbU6Nwl0aN JMY9tCO9LACuy0zhR9YtFR9lQ2DPVKyUzpYZo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=x-authentication-warning:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id :references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition :in-reply-to:user-agent; b=WrQZtoIzWLKuRGkAhdw4PCY62SYaNkBdRg3xYJW0+D5tCwq9f3pIHG2O54N6Mf3aOL t7tdOotYGREsdUV44jI73vHkEwA/4JUO9ED2VRt5rOfxqWYMoKIZiBPUpSHJUna+UliD CABa/EdJ0hjEE3Q/Cz/mx5Dve+9R/rJo1O9q4= Received: by 10.210.61.11 with SMTP id j11mr3653107eba.60.1230938785592; Fri, 02 Jan 2009 15:26:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from darklight.homeunix.org ([85.175.24.248]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id t2sm9825651gve.7.2009.01.02.15.26.20 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 02 Jan 2009 15:26:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from darklight.homeunix.org (yuri@darklight.homeunix.org [127.0.0.1]) by darklight.homeunix.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n02NQIj2092090; Sat, 3 Jan 2009 02:26:18 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from yuri.pankov@gmail.com) Received: (from yuri@localhost) by darklight.homeunix.org (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n02NQIeo092089; Sat, 3 Jan 2009 02:26:18 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from yuri.pankov@gmail.com) X-Authentication-Warning: darklight.homeunix.org: yuri set sender to yuri.pankov@gmail.com using -f Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 02:26:17 +0300 From: Yuri Pankov To: Torfinn Ingolfsen Message-ID: <20090102232617.GA72474@darklight.homeunix.org> References: <20081227003237.b719d42b.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> <20090102234310.d71300be.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090102234310.d71300be.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xorg and nVidia GeForce 8200 (MCP78S) - a better driver than vesa? X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2009 23:57:43 -0000 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 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