Intel 2.1.1 and HDTV tearing

[Alex Deucher]

On 8/17/07, Nicolas Will <nico at youplala.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 09:10 -0400, Alex Deucher wrote:
> > On 8/17/07, Nicolas Will <nico at youplala.net> wrote:
> > > Hi xorg-ers,
> > >
> > > When displaying 1080p content on my LCD TV, connected using HDMI,
> > > through mplayer or any other player, using xv, gl, gl2, I always get
> > > some level of tearing.
> > >
> > > Nothing huge, but enough lag to be registered by the brain and become a
> > > bit annoying, especially when you are watching big moving sceneries.
> > >
> > > Is there any xorg.cong setting that I could use to minimize this, until
> > > motion compensation comes into the code?
> >
> > Which intel chip do you have?
>
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> Sorry about that.
>
> It is a GMA X3000, on a G965 chipset, on an intel DG065WH motherboard,
> using a Prolink ADD-7315-DVI-T ADD2-N card (Chrontel CH7215) with HDMI
> output.

I don't think the i965 chips have an overlay.

> >   If you have one with an overlay try
> > using that rather than the texture adapter.
>
> How do I know, and how do I do?

see what adapters xvinfo shows.

Alex