Bug 2535

Summary: Artefacts, disappearing cursor and tv-out problem in Savage Xv
Product: xorg Reporter: Maarten Wisse <Maarten.Wisse>
Component: Driver/savageAssignee: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity: normal    
Priority: high CC: alexdeucher, amilo
Version: git   
Hardware: x86 (IA32)   
OS: Linux (All)   
Whiteboard: 2011BRB_Reviewed
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Description Maarten Wisse 2005-02-14 03:40:49 UTC
Distro: Gentoo  
Xorg: 6.8.1.904  
CVS snapshot savage driver: 09-02-2005  
Hardware: Acer Aspire 1312LC with ProSavageDDR  
Kernel: 2.6.10-gentoo-r4  
  
In general, this combination of Xorg and CVS driver works well, both in 2D and  
3D. However, I've still some problems with Xv:  
  
1. In Kaffeine 0.5, when using a fixed window which displays video's scaled  
rather than 1x, 2x or full screen, I get gray and green artefacts. See  
screenshot attached. These also appear when, for instance, one moves  
kaffeine's window. This was not the case with the old driver (pre 2.0 cvs  
snapshot)  
  
2. I use a default hardware cursor---no 3d effects for example. When using 
mplayerplug-in in Firefox, my cursor sometimes disappears after closing an 
embedded stream, for example after pressing the `back' button in the browser. 
A workaround was to bring the embedded stream to full screen and back to 
embedded. After that action, the cursos didn't disappear anymore. The 
`disappearing' was just disappearing, it did still work, as visible when 
moving over links etc. 
 
3. I'm problem with tv-out. First, the window visible on tv is too small. This 
happens with both with 1024x768 and 800x600 (didn't try smaller res.) Further, 
xv doesn't work properly on tv-out. The movie is displaced to the bottom 
rightcorner. This didn't happen with the previous driver either.
Comment 1 Maarten Wisse 2005-02-14 03:42:58 UTC
Created attachment 1899 [details]
Kaffeine screenshot
Comment 2 Maarten Wisse 2005-04-14 01:17:40 UTC
Situation still the same with 20050410 snapshot. 
Comment 3 Alex Deucher 2005-04-14 05:40:23 UTC
(In reply to comment #0)
> Distro: Gentoo  
> Xorg: 6.8.1.904  
> CVS snapshot savage driver: 09-02-2005  
> Hardware: Acer Aspire 1312LC with ProSavageDDR  
> Kernel: 2.6.10-gentoo-r4  
>   
> In general, this combination of Xorg and CVS driver works well, both in 2D and  
> 3D. However, I've still some problems with Xv:  
>   
> 1. In Kaffeine 0.5, when using a fixed window which displays video's scaled  
> rather than 1x, 2x or full screen, I get gray and green artefacts. See  
> screenshot attached. These also appear when, for instance, one moves  
> kaffeine's window. This was not the case with the old driver (pre 2.0 cvs  
> snapshot)  
>   

Try turning off option "BCIforXv"


> 2. I use a default hardware cursor---no 3d effects for example. When using 
> mplayerplug-in in Firefox, my cursor sometimes disappears after closing an 
> embedded stream, for example after pressing the `back' button in the browser. 
> A workaround was to bring the embedded stream to full screen and back to 
> embedded. After that action, the cursos didn't disappear anymore. The 
> `disappearing' was just disappearing, it did still work, as visible when 
> moving over links etc. 
>  
> 3. I'm problem with tv-out. First, the window visible on tv is too small. This 
> happens with both with 1024x768 and 800x600 (didn't try smaller res.) Further, 
> xv doesn't work properly on tv-out. The movie is displaced to the bottom 
> rightcorner. This didn't happen with the previous driver either.

TV-out is limited to 640x480.
Comment 4 Maarten Wisse 2005-06-01 03:02:43 UTC
>  
> Try turning off option "BCIforXv" 
No difference. 
> > 3. I'm problem with tv-out. First, the window visible on tv is too small. 
This  
> > happens with both with 1024x768 and 800x600 (didn't try smaller res.) 
Further,  
> > xv doesn't work properly on tv-out. The movie is displaced to the bottom  
> > rightcorner. This didn't happen with the previous driver either. 
>  
> TV-out is limited to 640x480. 
No difference. As far as tv-out is concerned, the old 1.1.27 driver is really 
_much_ better on my system. Also, there are no artefacts in xv with the old 
driver. Something has become worse here rather than better. 
 
>  
 
 
Comment 5 Daniel Stone 2007-02-27 01:25:24 UTC
Sorry about the phenomenal bug spam, guys.  Adding xorg-team@ to the QA contact so bugs don't get lost in future.
Comment 6 Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia 2011-10-09 17:44:43 UTC
Is this still an issue?
Comment 7 Adam Jackson 2018-06-12 19:06:56 UTC
Mass closure: This bug has been untouched for more than six years, and is not
obviously still valid. Please reopen this bug or file a new report if you continue to experience issues with current releases.

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