Voodoo3 & XVideo

[s_bulterman at wxs.nl]

This good news in my ears......

At moment running Xfree 4.0.3 and workaround for xv.....

michael norman wrote:
> 
> David
> 
> I have had the same problem although I am using xine rather than videolan.
> I.m using SuSE 7.2 on a p111 with 374m ram. I have a Vodoo 3 2000.  I have
> just updated to xfree 4.1.0 and installed xine 4.3 and hey presto xv now
> works. You may want to try xfree 4.1.0 and see if that fixes it.
> 
> FWIW xawtv and kwintv have always worked her since SuSE 6.0.
> 
> HTH
> 
> Mike
> 
> On Monday 30 July 2001 3:56 am, David Gómez wrote:
> > As some people pointed before, it seems the support for XVideo in Voodoo
> > cards is broken. vlc show several errors when trying to allocate an
> > xvimage, and other aplicattions using xvideo (xawtv) shows a black
> > screen. But Xvinfo list the 3dfx card (so what that means?? it's supported
> > or not?). Also it lists that the only operation supported is PutImage
> > while the device v4l supports PutVideo.
> >
> > I'm using Xfree 4.0.3, so if the problem is in tdfx driver, what needs to
> > be fixed? maybe is fixed in 4.1.0? Or is there somebody working on it? Am
> > i asking too much questions ;) ?
> >
> >
> > David Gómez
> >
> > "The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of
> >  whether submarines can swim." -- Edsger W. Dijkstra

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Thanks in advance,
Stefan
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