I was sad that I jumped to a clearly wrong conclusion on the original poster's message, but hey might as well run with it... :) Hetz Ben Hamo (hetz@xxxxxxx): > > The solution to this is that overlay mode should be deprecated. The > > functionality, where the frames are transferred directly to video > > memory, has been put into an XFree86 extension called, simply, > > "v4l", and this allows the X server to be made aware of what's going > > on, and lets it handle memory allocation properly. Add the line: > > > > Load "v4l" > > I don't know why, but it's VERY buggy with bt878 based cards (I have 2 > of them - and they have the same problems, although they are from 2 > different vendors). How is it buggy? What is the issue? What version of X? What video card? > I have sent emails to xfree-devel about this and to this list, but I > didn't see any answer about this at all, so I'm forced to use the DGA > crap (and it is crap, specially while you're waiting when compiling > some big stuff)... This I don't understand. Why does the DGA mode (overlay mode) cause difficulties when compiling stuff? The purpose of that is to eat 0 cpu... What's up? -- Billy Biggs vektor@xxxxxxxxxxxx
