From owner-freebsd-multimedia Fri Sep 15 18:11:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mailout01.sul.t-online.com (mailout01.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECBA837B42C for ; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 18:11:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fwd01.sul.t-online.com by mailout01.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 13a6W7-0000Pe-01; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 03:11:43 +0200 Received: from giskard.foundation.hs (320048919767-0001@[62.155.180.57]) by fwd01.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 13a6Vw-0V0x0aC; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 03:11:32 +0200 Received: from daneel.foundation.hs (daneel.foundation.hs [192.168.20.2]) by giskard.foundation.hs (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id DAA19124 for ; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 03:12:42 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from hschaefer@fto.de) Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 03:11:17 +0200 (CEST) From: 320048919767-0001@t-online.de (Heiko Schaefer) To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: shared video memory trouble Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Sender: 320048919767-0001@t-dialin.net Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi everyone! for some days i have been trying to figure out why i can't allocate any substantial amount of memory by using either the XvShmCreateImage or the XShmCreateImage calls. i am using freebsd 4.1-release with xfree-4.0.1 (i tried the package first, then compiled xfree by hand just to be sure the port wasn't the cause). my graphics card is a matrox g400 agp with 32mb of ram. i can allocate 6 frames of memory at 720x576x16bpp on freebsd, while on a test linux installation on the same box i can allocate nearly 100 of these frames. the problem seems to be freebsd-related i figured. a friend of mine reproduced the effect on another freebsd 4.1 box. any hints/pointers are appreciated! regards, Heiko To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message