Xv on x1400 with Radeon 3/26 version

[elenius]

Excited about the newly added Xvideo support in the radeon driver, I installed a pre-packaged Ubuntu package of the latest git from

https://launchpad.net/~tormodvolden/+archive

It claimed to support Xv when I did xvinfo. However when I tried (on a mobility x1400 btw) to play movies (in mplayer and totem), the movie display was all white, and the computer crashed hard after a few seconds (still with some HDD activity).

Oh well, hopefully soon

Hmm, I got that package yesterday, and now I see that there's a newer one. Time to try it again

[agd5f]

Excited about the newly added Xvideo support in the radeon driver, I installed a pre-packaged Ubuntu package of the latest git from

https://launchpad.net/~tormodvolden/+archive

It claimed to support Xv when I did xvinfo. However when I tried (on a mobility x1400 btw) to play movies (in mplayer and totem), the movie display was all white, and the computer crashed hard after a few seconds (still with some HDD activity).

Oh well, hopefully soon

Hmm, I got that package yesterday, and now I see that there's a newer one. Time to try it again

try enabling EXA as well:
Option "AccelMethod" "EXA"

Also try again with the latest drm installed from git.

[NaterGator]

Also, are you setting the port of the Textured Video adapter (as you saw from xvinfo) when starting your video app?

[elenius]

try enabling EXA as well:
Option "AccelMethod" "EXA"

Also try again with the latest drm installed from git.

I tried it with the 3/28 version. With EXA enabled, X freezes right after logging in. Without it, same behavior as before.

[fatfatwolf]

I tried it with the 3/28 version. With EXA enabled, X freezes right after logging in. Without it, same behavior as before.

I have exactly the same behavior on a Lenovo T60 with X1300. And I tried to remove fglrx driver, to use different kind of combinations of options in xorg.conf, but none got succeeded.

[airlied]

EXA on my rv515 fails unless I load the drm, I'll see what we can do but really accel with out a DRM is a pain in the ass, and I'm all for disabling it in radeon to simplify the codepaths.

[elenius]

EXA on my rv515 fails unless I load the drm, I'll see what we can do but really accel with out a DRM is a pain in the ass, and I'm all for disabling it in radeon to simplify the codepaths.

Sorry, but what's this DRM thing and how do I install it?

[c247]

690G IGP ATI x1250 128MB fedora 8 x68_64 latest proprietary fglrx from AMD website

As wolf said, my post should be moved to fglrx, but interesting anyway.

Now I believe locks are due to memory allocation issues, and has nothing to do with userland apps or games.

http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8622

Good luck.

[fatfatwolf]

ATI x1250 IGP 128MB

No lock ups now, using standard configuration. I was having complete lock ups when playing urbanterror. Short answer, use amdcccle to set all 3D options to on (always on)

More info about what I tried here:

http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8622

Good luck.

Thanks for the tip, but we are having a different issue which involves radeon driver instead of fglrx.

[elenius]

Tried with latest RadeonHD (4/1 version) from the same source. No Xv or xrandr support yet, so sticking with regular Radeon.