No video overlay on Intel X4500HD

[Daniel Gultsch]

Hi David

On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:43:27 +0100 (CET)
"David Amiel" <david at lesamiel.fr> wrote:
> > My major problem is that i dont have the "Intel(R) Video Overlay"
> > but only the "Intel(R) Textured Video" - as reported by xvinfo |
> > grep -i adaptor. This causes tearing and i really need to watch
> > movies :-)
> 
> Everyone with X4500 chips want to watch movies without eyes crying,
> but even though this problem should had been solved in 2.5 driver
> release actually it isn't. Older intel graphic chips can switch from
> textured mode to overlay to bypass this issue, unfortunately X4500
> provides only textured mode.

Thanks alot for the answer. But once again just to be sure:

Is this a hardware problem or a software/driver problem? Can the
(hardware) chip actually to this overlay stuff?

I mean this thing is called 4500 _HD_ and it has a DisplayPort (HDMI).
One major reason for me buying an Intel GMA was the supposed good linux
driver support and the HD support.
But since both of the reasons turned out to be wrong (at least for the
moment?) I'm really thinking about returning the notebook.

> Intel dev are working hard to make things evolving (GEM, KMS etc) so,
> one day tearing issue will be solved for sure. We just have to be
> patient at the moment.

I guess you're longer reading this newsgroup so do you, by chance, know
for what release the Video overlay support is planed? 2.7 maybe? or
rather 5.3 (which will be released in 10 years when nobody is actually
using this card anymore)

cheers Daniel