XV Acceleration on Secondary Display

[Gordan Bobic]

Hi,

I'm trying to get XV acceleration to work on the secondary display on my 
laptop, and I'm not having any success. Playing videos with XV 
acceleration on the primary display works fine, but on the secondary it 
always falls back to X11 rendering which is sufficiently slow that the 
frame drop makes it unusable.

I tried switching the layout around (making Screen1 0 0, Screen0 LeftOf 
Screen1) and that didn't make any difference. I also tried:
Option "Primary" "true" on Screen1, but that didn't help, either.

The VGA controller is an ageing Rage Mobility M4, and in lspci it shows 
up as a single device, but specifying an additional r128 device section 
without device ID and attaching Screen/Monitor sections to it gets the 
external screen up.

How can I get the external monitor to be the primary (actually primary, 
not just by desktop icon placement appearance) and thus get XV 
acceleration on that instead of the laptop's built in screen?

The other problem I have is that if the secondary screen is plugged in 
when X starts, nothing appears on that screen, but if I unplug the 
external screen, start X, then plug in the secondary monitor, both show 
the correct output.

I'm using RHEL5 and the ATI driver is from this package:
xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.6.3-3.27.el5

TIA.

Gordan