On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 06:06:27PM +0100, Barry Scott wrote: > The via driver code that XFree86 ships in 4.5.0 and 4.6.0 does not work > for XVIDEO > on the CLE266 chip. The Xserver uses 100% CPU time and you have to > reboot to get > your machine back after Xine starts to play a movie. > > The via code from the Unichrome sourceforge project is very stable. I'm > porting the > unichrome driver to 4.6.0. This code is usually used with Xorg. > > You might want to approach the Unichrome author, Luc Verhaegen, for > permission > to use his code in Xfree86. > > There is a another version of the via code called the OpenChrome > project. But > their code is unstable (and the default in Xorg...). > > Oh and the code from via themselves is next to useless and very poorly > written. > > Barry > Barry, How much time have you already spent trying to get my code to build and run against xfree86 4.6.0? How much would it have cost you if you allowed me to bill you for the time i'd be spending on it? And when would you have had a working X and driver? Luc Verhaegen. _______________________________________________ Devel@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
