dri & lombard

[Rolando Abarca]

> Can you not just add the appropriate lines into the XF86Config ?

tried that, but didn't work.
I wanted to try the xv video output of mplayer, but the X that comes with
YDL wouldn't allow me.
Now I recompiled X from cvs, and mplayer can play almost any DivX/MPEG
movie at full screen at some pretty good frame rates.
I still have to add hardware accelerated OpenGL, but I'll try to that
later. I need to finish some work before.
btw, this is what I did:

get DRI cvs mach64-branch:
 cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.dri.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/dri login
 cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.dri.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/dri \
    co -r mach64-0-0-6-branch xc
get mach64 patch (download to ~/):
 http://www.retinalburn.net/linux/dri_xv.html
patch the source:
 cd xc/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/ati
 gunzip ~/mach64-dri-xv-20030331.diff.gz | patch -p1
compile and install:
 cd xc/xc
 make World
 sudo make install
I couldn't make the mach64.o kernel module, I still have to check that
out. Anyway, after a reboot, I got xv working just fine. (ps: I didn't
touch my XFree86Config file)

> Let me know of your experiences, so I can suss mine too. I cant play back
> ANY video files at any decent frame rate on my lombard, it's annoying. I'm
> yet to try the DVD....
>
> James

hth,
ra./