From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sat Jun 12 6:10:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from pluto.ipass.net (pluto.ipass.net [198.79.53.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C03C15028 for ; Sat, 12 Jun 1999 06:10:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rhh@ipass.net) Received: from stealth.ipass.net. (ppp-3-47.dialup.rdu.ipass.net [209.170.134.47]) by pluto.ipass.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA28851; Sat, 12 Jun 1999 09:10:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from rhh@localhost) by stealth.ipass.net. (8.9.3/8.8.8) id JAA02233; Sat, 12 Jun 1999 09:12:14 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from rhh) Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 09:12:14 -0400 From: Randall Hopper To: Andrew Sparrow Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Imagine I128, DGA and fxtv Message-ID: <19990612091214.C1400@ipass.net> References: <199906112116.OAA28429@shell7.ba.best.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <199906112116.OAA28429@shell7.ba.best.com>; from Andrew Sparrow on Fri, Jun 11, 1999 at 02:16:16PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Andrew Sparrow: |I felt really let down recently when I purchased my WinTV card and |tried it out with my #9 Imagine 128 Series II. | |As the XFree86 I128 server (version 3.3.3.1) doesn't support the |Direct Video feature of DGA, That's a bummer. |640x480 mode ended up queuing up so many X events that the entire |machine very quickly became totally unusable (dual PPro 233Mhz, |3.x) and, sometimes, even switching back to the smaller mode or |bouncing the X server was impossible.. That is strange. It was usable on my P100 w/ ASUS P55T2P4 system. Though it does dog down some if X has to do clipping. |Then someone mentioned VMware...patches to XFree86 3.3.3.1 to provide |DGA/Direct Video support for the following cards/servers: | | SVGA, Mach64, S3Virge, 3DLabs, i128. | |I believe that at least some of these already have Direct Video, |but I know that the I128 server didn't - until now!! ... |The difference in the quality of the image with Direct Video is |tremendous - I just wanted to thank everyone involved with the |bt848 driver and fxtv - it totally rocks!!! | |(I'm a little pumped right now, as you can probably tell.. ;-) Cool deal! You might tell the XFree86 group of your success so we can get these in the next official version. Randall To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message