[Xorg] XVIDEO memory problems under Xorg
Egbert Eich
eich at pdx.freedesktop.org
Sun Jul 4 04:57:10 PDT 2004
Billy Biggs writes:
> Hi,
>
> I am wondering if someone who is familiar with Xorg vs XFree86 in
> terms of XVIDEO could take a look at this bug:
>
> http://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=474
>
> Basically, users of both the ATI binary drivers and the Matrox driver
> are complaining that XVIDEO applications can't be run until they shut
> down pixmap-eating apps like Mozilla. This problem does not seem to
> occur under XFree86 (or at least, not nearly as frequently). I hear a
> lot of complaints from FC2 users about this bug.
>
> Is there something that changed in how video memory is being
> allocated between the two X servers?
>
I assume that the changes in the offscreen memory manager produced this
problem. For video you need a rather large linear chunk of offscreen memory.
If I have time I'll take a look.
Cheers,
Egbert.
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