Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Tue, 9 Feb 1999 22:05:04 -0700 (MST)
From:      "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com>
To:        aa8vb@pagesz.net (Randall Hopper)
Cc:        multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 8Meg Milleniums & XFree86 Direct Video bug  (was Re: FXTV - picture outside of fxtv window)
Message-ID:  <199902100505.WAA17227@panzer.plutotech.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990205194928.A5221@pagesz.net> from Randall Hopper at "Feb 5, 1999  7:49:28 pm"

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Randall Hopper wrote...
> Kenneth D. Merry:
>  |One other problem I have:  when switch fxtv from ~640x480 (i.e., full size)
>  |to ~320x200, or when I exit fxtv while it is full size (640x480 window), my
>  |screen shifts one or maybe two pixels right, and one or two pixels down.
>  |
>  |It more or less wraps around, i.e., the pixels that should be at the far
>  |right wind up on the far left.  And the pixels that should be at the
>  |bottom wind up at the top.
>  |
>  |The wrap-around effect goes away when I move my mouse to the far right of
>  |the screen, and then to the bottom of the screen.
>  |
>  |This smells like an XFree86 bug, but I suppose Randall would have a better
>  |idea on whether fxtv could be doing something wrong.
> 
> Hmm.  Not too sure about this one.  It sounds like it may be related to
> something I fixed recently.  Sometimes, when switching video modes
> (full-screen zoom), fxtv would ask X to set the desktop viewport origin to
> an invalid value.  X doesn't do proper checking, and sometimes ends up
> displaying video memory that isn't even a part of your desktop.
> 
> I'm fixing to cut a new version here shortly which contains the fix.  So
> hopefully that'll do it.  If not, we'll see where to go from there.

Well, once I hacked fxtv 0.48 to build, it fixes the problem I outlined
above.  (screen wraps right and down by one pixel when you switch from
640x480 to 320x200 mode)

It does cause problems, though, when I switch from full screen mode (i.e.,
the X server is 640x480) back to 1280x1024.

To recap:  I've got a Matrox Millennium with 8MB RAM.  I run at
1280x1024@32bpp with XFree86 3.3.3.1.


Ken
-- 
Kenneth Merry
ken@plutotech.com

To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199902100505.WAA17227>