From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 28 18:30:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA19773 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 28 Jan 1996 18:30:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [204.188.121.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA19766 for ; Sun, 28 Jan 1996 18:30:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.v-site.net [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id SAA00905; Sun, 28 Jan 1996 18:28:48 -0800 Message-Id: <199601290228.SAA00905@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.5 12/11/95 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Terry Lambert , luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, james@miller.cs.uwm.edu, dufault@hda.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org, multimedia@rah.star-gate.com Subject: Re: [FCC Warning!] The Dangerous effect of Direct TV !! In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 28 Jan 1996 18:19:52 PST." <13482.822881992@time.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 18:28:47 -0800 From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk If you have a linear buffer and we can figured out: o Where is the physical location of the frame buffer. o If the linear buffer is accessible. The reason why I mentioning this is that the XFree86 tends to lock out the linear buffer most of the time. Yes, I know that you are using Xinside so you will have to have a slightly different version of tv one which does not depend on DGA to enable the linear buffer. This is academic at this point since I don't know jack shit about the Matrox Impression and Xinside's XServer. o The linear buffer must map the entire frame buffer -- there are some graphic engine implementations which only mmap just a bank. >>> "Jordan K. Hubbard" said: > > As I am typing this I am watching TV on my FreeBSD box 8) > > Whats different is that Matrox Meteor is dumping video directly > > to my video graphic card very little CPU intervention. The > > Cool. Assuming that my particular video card is a Matrox Impression Plus > (which it is), will this work for me, too? :-) > > Jordan