newest drivers lose X-video support?

[Tino Keitel]

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 00:33:10 -0800, Brandon Kuczenski wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I recently installed updated versions of xserver-xorg-video-intel 
> (2.5.1-1ubuntu5), libdrm2 and libdrm-intel1 (2.4.1-0ubuntu7) in order to 
> try to resolve a suspend-to-RAM bug.  I installed files from this 
> archive:
> https://edge.launchpad.net/~intel-gfx-testing/+archive
> 
> The fix appears to have worked, but an apparent side-effect is that I have 
> lost X-video support.  xvinfo returns:
> $ xvinfo
> X-Video Extension version 2.2
> screen #0
>   no adaptors present

In the past, Ubuntu patched the Intel driver to disable textured video.
If your hardware doesn't support video overlay anymore, you would end
up without any XV adaptor at all. What hardware are you using?

Regards,
Tino