Hardware overlay on G965

[Maxim Levitsky]

On Monday, 25 February 2008 15:01:44 Thomas Fritzsche wrote:
> Hi Maxim Levitsky,
> 
> Yes, so I got interested about your patch.
> In the final version of the Ubuntu-patch
> (http://launchpadlibrarian.net/9337645/xserver-xorg-video-intel_2.1.1-0ubuntu3.debdiff)
> I read:
> +  * debian/patches/01_fix_compiz_video.diff:
> +    - default to overlay mode on hardware that supports it to
> +      make compiz video work
> 
> So I thought you patch is helpful getting overlay more activated.
> (what it doesn't do for i965 without your patches)
> 
> Meanwhile I tried to research and it looks like my X3100 uses a GM965.
> I guess the "M" means "Mobile", so your patch can't work?
> 
> I try to find documentation about what i965 flavour supports overlay
> and what not. I'm digging around
> http://intellinuxgraphics.org/documentation.html but have not found
> the details.
I is very possible, I say almost for sure that overlay works there too.
I am just careful, since I had an information, that Intel removed the overlay unit somewhere.

Just change the check in the second patch:
+#define HW_HAS_OVERLAY(pI810) (1)

to test it


Best regards,
	Maxim Levitsky