Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 09:12:14 -0400 From: Randall Hopper <aa8vb@ipass.net> To: Andrew Sparrow <spadger@best.com> Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Imagine I128, DGA and fxtv Message-ID: <19990612091214.C1400@ipass.net> In-Reply-To: <199906112116.OAA28429@shell7.ba.best.com>; from Andrew Sparrow on Fri, Jun 11, 1999 at 02:16:16PM -0700 References: <199906112116.OAA28429@shell7.ba.best.com>
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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
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