[PD] pdp_xv can't create

[martin pichlmair]

> Using ATI X300 with the generic VESA driver.

generic vesa - that's the problem. you can't do videoprocessing with 
generic vesa drivers - its like racing indianapolis with a vw beatle. 
you should really figure out how to use (at least 2d-)accelerated 
drivers because pdp_sdl will also not work hardware-accelerated 
otherwise. it tries to get a yuv context and if it fails it _should_ 
fall back to a software-only 2d rendering context. thus it should give 
you a window but that won't help you much.

> Given the ATI driver
> problems with XOrg and some other issues, I'm going to install Sarge or
> Ubuntu, mostly to fix some other problems,

actually i have problems with xorg too. seems like the distros are only 
halfway through in packaging everything to accept it. i use gentoo. no 
fun to compile 2 hours to realise that linking of xorg fails due to 
glibc problems.

> but this as well. If,
> however, I do end up using pdp_sdl, I'll be sure to throw together a
> help patch and send it to you.

thanks a lot. actually that would remind me of all the missing 
functionality :-)

lg
martin

>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> -Ian
>
> martin pichlmair wrote:
>> hi,
>>> X-Video Extension version 2.2
>>> screen #0
>>>  no adaptors present
>>> [root at mdhcp40 ian]#
>>>
>>> So, this is an issue with my driver?
>> looks like. what graphics card are you using?
>>> I found more archive articles and saw there's pdp_sdl, which works. 
>>> Is there a help patch for pdp_sdl?
>> well. not really. this would have been my job :-). i did that object 
>> and i'm lazy at documenting.
>> actually it just takes a couple of messages: "size w h" for resizing 
>> and "poll" which polls for the last event.
>> somehow i stopped working on it as pdp_xv matured...
>> i wish you luck with that one.
>> martin
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Ian
>>>
>>>
>>> martin pichlmair wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Now I've got more issues. I try to open a pdp_xv and get this 
>>>>> message:
>>>>>
>>>>> pdp_xv: cant open display :0
>>>>
>>>> this can have several reasons that were previously discussed on the 
>>>> mailing list. i assume that you got a linux system.
>>>> doing on of the following things might help (all done in the shell):
>>>> - issue "xhost +" to disable x security
>>>> - issue "xvinfo" (xvidinfo?) to know if your system offers xvideo
>>>> in case xhost does not help you could post the xvinfo output here, 
>>>> so we have a look.
>>>> lg
>>>> martin
>>>
>>>
>>>
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