Testing Out AMD's DRI2 Driver Stack

[nanonyme]

with Xv. While it's not GPU acceleration

Err, yes it is? Wikipedia: "Most modern video controllers provide the functions required for XVideo; the feature is known as hardware scaling and YUV acceleration or sometimes as 2D hardware acceleration. "

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_video_extension

Edit: Oh, right. You meant as in decoding acceleration. Well, nice to see modern CPU's can actually do it with full quality with multithreading, I had to downscale playback quite a bit on my AMD64 3500+ to get it to work fluently.

[cliff]

A few people have reported problems with the X2 boards and Jaunty, although they didn't show up in our "early look" testing on server 1.6. Did you see the same problems with Intrepid ? If not, it might be worth staying on 8.10 until we finish QA testing & bug fixing on Jaunty, and announce support in the release notes.

No, in Intrepid the Catalyst drivers were progressing nicely. But now with Jaunty they are a no-go. I though about going back to Intrepid but I have everything working nice in Jaunty except 3d so I am taking a break from gaming for now. Hopefully Catalyst 4.5 will soon fix the problem.

[nanonyme]

No, in Intrepid the Catalyst drivers were progressing nicely. But now with Jaunty they are a no-go. I though about going back to Intrepid but I have everything working nice in Jaunty except 3d so I am taking a break from gaming for now. Hopefully Catalyst 4.5 will soon fix the problem.

4.5? o.O Did you mean 9.5?

[cliff]

4.5? o.O Did you mean 9.5?

Yes 9.5 thanks

[agd5f]

This patch fixes the Xv problems with Glisse' kms DDX:

http://www.botchco.com/alex/xorg/kms_fix_clipping.diff

[Veerappan]

This patch fixes the Xv problems with Glisse' kms DDX:
http://www.botchco.com/alex/xorg/kms_fix_clipping.diff

Hey Alex,

Thanks for the diff. I patched a fresh copy of the radeon-rewrite branch using what you just posted, and the Xv output is indeed improved, but there's still some cropping going on. I am seeing what looks like the upper-left quadrant of the video stream (using Miro to test using Xv output, M22 (x300 mobility), Ubuntu 9.04 w/ KMS/DRI2/etc), but the other 3/4 of the video are getting chopped off.

I'll probably play around with the offset changes you had in your diff to see if I can get it to work on my machine, but no guarantees.

--Aaron

[agd5f]

Hey Alex,

Thanks for the diff. I patched a fresh copy of the radeon-rewrite branch using what you just posted, and the Xv output is indeed improved, but there's still some cropping going on. I am seeing what looks like the upper-left quadrant of the video stream (using Miro to test using Xv output, M22 (x300 mobility), Ubuntu 9.04 w/ KMS/DRI2/etc), but the other 3/4 of the video are getting chopped off.

I'll probably play around with the offset changes you had in your diff to see if I can get it to work on my machine, but no guarantees.

--Aaron

you'll also need to revert:
8338385cd94b35f54b25cf2576890159f8dd9f71
or just apply this patch:

http://www.botchco.com/alex/xorg/kms_fix_xv.diff

which contains both the reversion and the clipping fix.

[Veerappan]

you'll also need to revert:
8338385cd94b35f54b25cf2576890159f8dd9f71
or just apply this patch:

http://www.botchco.com/alex/xorg/kms_fix_xv.diff

which contains both the reversion and the clipping fix.

Much better. The picture looks correct as far as I can tell. Xv is now usable, and much improved over having to set gstreamer to non-Xv output (was getting alternating smooth video and a slideshow watching videos earlier).

Thank you for the patch, and keep up the great work.

--Aaron