Bug 74273

Summary:	FpDelay in trident_drv.o
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Enrico Segre <segre>
Component:	XFree86	Assignee:	Mike A. Harris <mharris>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.3	CC:	alanh
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OS:	Linux
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Description Enrico Segre 2002-09-19 11:40:51 UTC

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Description of problem:
I've tested 4 different precompiled versions of
/etc/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/trident_drv.o:

a)the one from XFree86-4.2.0, included in RH 7.3
b)the one from XFree86-4.2.1
c)the one at www.xfree.org/~alanh
d)the one at people.redhat.com/mharris

a) and b) are not accelerated for the Cyberblade XP/Ai1, nor they support Option
"FpDelay" "N" (N=-2:5) in XF86Config-4, but are ok in playing mpeg

c) is accelerated, supports FpDelay, but is buggy vs mpeg reproduction

d) is accelerated and ok about mpeg, but does not support FpDelay

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. drop in /etc/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/ one of the four .o
2. restart X and login as user to get a WM
3. check GUI acceleration e.g. dragging desktop windows
4. check mpeg reproduction with e.g noatun/kaboodle/mpegartsplay

Actual Results:  With unaccelerated drivers: GUI animations are pretty slow

With mpeg-buggy drivers: the player opens a libmpeg window at position x,y, the
whole screen fills up with copies of line y from y downwards, thus displaying
only a vertical smear of that line, and being unusable. Quitting X, switching to
virtual console do not help: only reboot puts the video card back to an usable mode

Without "FpDelay": on my laptop, the raster falls offscreen by a few pixels to
the right. With alanh's driver, Option "FpDelay" "2" centers it.

Expected Results:  It would be nice that the branches could be merged so that
the driver is accelerated, stable for mpegs and centerable with FpDelay

Additional info:

this refers to my particular laptop, a Toshiba Satellite 1800-712 with a
Cyberblade XP/Ai1

Enhancement request as suggested by Mike Harris, with whom I had private
communication.

Comment 1 Mike A. Harris 2002-10-06 04:46:09 UTC

If there's a newer Trident driver which contains the fixes/features
you're requesting, I'll see about adding them to future erratum.

Adding Alan Hourihane for comment.

TIA

Comment 2 Mike A. Harris 2002-11-07 13:13:10 UTC

We do not have Trident hardware available, nor Trident specifications.
As such there is little that I can do to debug or troubleshoot the problem
you are having.

Please report this problem to XFree86.org directly by mailing a bug
report to xfree86.  You may also want to discuss the problem
on the xpert mailing list.

If a new release of XFree86 contains an updated driver that does has
the feature you're requesting and solves the problem for you, I can then
investigate the possibility of releasing an updated trident driver in
future erratum.

Since there's no way that we can solve this problem, I'm closing it
as WONTFIX.