HD with Xvideo on i915GM (i810 driver)

Alan Hourihane alanh at fairlite.demon.co.uk
Mon Oct 23 06:22:50 PDT 2006


On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 09:03 -0400, Ken Mandelberg wrote:
> Alan Hourihane wrote:
> 
> > modesetting doesn't have the fixes, but in i830_video.c you have to bump
> > the MAX_HEIGHT to at least 1088.
> > 
> 
> Yes, I figured that out, It also requires upping "Option 'LinearAlloc" 
> "integer' above 6144.
> 
> I increased it a bit liberally, but would be interested in the 1920x1080 
> calculation of 6144 to see how to compute the correct value for 1088.

I can't remember how that was derived, but it should be 1920*1088*2 for
the frame, and then *2 again because it's double buffered, making 8160.

I'll update the manpage.

Alan.




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