From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sun Jan 17 08:28:23 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA01551 for freebsd-multimedia-outgoing; Sun, 17 Jan 1999 08:28:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp1.vnet.net (smtp1.vnet.net [166.82.1.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA01546 for ; Sun, 17 Jan 1999 08:28:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rivers@dignus.com) Received: from dignus.com (ponds.vnet.net [166.82.177.48]) by smtp1.vnet.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA00158; Sun, 17 Jan 1999 11:28:51 -0500 (EST) Received: from lakes.dignus.com (lakes.dignus.com [10.0.0.3]) by dignus.com (8.9.1/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA06667; Sun, 17 Jan 1999 12:11:53 -0500 (EST) Received: (from rivers@localhost) by lakes.dignus.com (8.9.1/8.6.9) id LAA17680; Sun, 17 Jan 1999 11:30:33 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 11:30:33 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas David Rivers Message-Id: <199901171630.LAA17680@lakes.dignus.com> To: aa8vb@pagesz.net, rivers@dignus.com Subject: Re: fxtv - Xfree86 3.3.3.x - and ".. using Ximages" Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19990116231537.A6165@pagesz.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > Thomas David Rivers: > | That was it! Thanks... > | > | Now - I have another problem... previously, when I clicked on the image, > |it would reset my X server and become "full screen". Now it doesn't, > |but it selects a video mode that is about 1/3 screen size. Also, it > |seems to have some banding (that is, part of the image isn't quite > |correct, filled with verticle black bands.) > | > | I'm guessing I haven't got some mode defined in my X server that needs > |to be there... but, I thought I would mention it. > > Yep, that's it. Fxtv switches down to the closest mode it can find that's > just-as-big or bigger than the full-size video image (640x480 for NTSC > folks). You probably don't have 640x480 defined, but 800x600 or 1024x768 > is, so it's using that. I'll add 640x480 and see what happens. > > Now my guess is that the strange banding is due to a bug in fxtv where it > sometimes tries to set the viewport of the virtual desktop to an invalid > value. Xfree86 doesn't properly sanity check this and does strange things > like switch to video memory that isn't even being used for XServer display. > > The fix to the latter is in a patch I posted to the list earlier today with > a Subject: of "Re: fxtv". You might grab it and give it a shot. I'd be > interested as to whether your banding goes away. > Unfortunately, I don't read the multimedia list... could you forward me that patch - I'll be happy to try it out and let you know. - Dave Rivers - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message