new 'xvmc' branch of intel video driver

[Dan Nicholson]

On Dec 30, 2007 4:00 PM, Dan Nicholson <dbn.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Dec 30, 2007 2:26 PM, R. G. Newbury <newbury at mandamus.org> wrote:
> > Zhenyu Wang <zhenyu.z.wang at intel.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > The aim of the new 'xvmc' branch is to deprecate origin
> > > 'xvmc-i915' branch with lot of cleanups and new framework
> > > inside driver to add supports for more hardware media decode
> > > drivers in future. It also has changes that affect users.
> > >
> > > The most noteable is that the origin libI915XvMC.so is replaced
> > > by a single libIntelXvMC.so entry to be used on different
> > > chipsets for different hardware decoders. Although currently
> > > there's only one decoder for MPEG MC on 915/945/G33 series.
> > > So you should change lib path in your XvMCConfig file.
> > >
> > > New driver option "XvMC" and config option can be used to disable
> > > XvMC feature in the driver. It turns on by default.
> >
> > I would love to test xvmc on an intel chipset, but something is wrong.
> > I updated my source xorg tree using the git-xorg script (Now 1.9G in
> > total). It now has an xvmc folder in the xf86-video-intel/src/ folder.
> > I followed the instructions on the Xorg wiki and used the
> > /util/macros/build.sh script.
> >
> > But the intel driver build fails in configure, with...:
> > checking whether gcc and cc understand -c and -o together... yes
> > checking for intel-gen4asm... no
> > ./configure: line 20441: syntax error near unexpected token `XINERAMA,'
> > ./configure: line 20441: `XORG_DRIVER_CHECK_EXT(XINERAMA, xineramaproto)'
> >
> > The problem appears to be that XINERAMA is not defined.
> > BTW this is the master branch, but I took it that the xvmc changes had
> > been committed to the master branch. I did not try pulling the xvmc branch.
> > Can anyone help?
>
> Sounds very much like you don't have the pkg-config development
> package which contains the pkg-config autoconf macros. autoconf will
> just pass through strings that it doesn't recognize into the final
> configure shell script. This will often result in syntax errors in
> configure. Do you get any output from 'grep PKG_CHECK' aclocal.m4'?

I should say that it's more likely that you don't have the xorg-server
development package which contains the XORG_DRIVER_CHECK_EXT autoconf
macro. It's usually in the file /usr/share/aclocal/xorg-server.m4.

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Dan