Recently XVideo support has been added for the neomagic driver by the XFree86 team. It would be desirable to have it included in RedHat's RPMs (if too late for next release, at least in rawhide). The code is in XFree86 CVS.
Created attachment 53984 [details] Patch adding XVideo support for neomagic (against XFree-4.2.0)
Patch applied to rawhide XFree86 4.2.0-5.11
The patch above unfortunately has incomplete support for XVideo on external screens. The timings are wrong and the XVideo image does not show. I have updated the patch to the Oct-23-2002 CVS version and now everything is working OK. Tested on Red Hat 8.0 XFree86-4.2.0-72 and working flawlessly as far as I have tested (internal, external and internal+external screen).
Created attachment 82025 [details] The updated patch with fully working XV support
Is this latest patch included in XFree86 CVS head now? ie: did you backport this from CVS, or else submit it to XFree86.org? If it isn't in XFree86 CVS already, I probably won't apply the patch, as I don't want to maintain it. If it is in CVS, then I'll consider adding it to 4.2.1 erratum. If it isn't in CVS, please submit it to fixes first.
It is a straightforward backport of XFree86 CVS (I would be incapable of writing driver level stuff myself ;-). Since the original CVS backport I submitted, a couple of things were fixed in CVS, hence the new backport. The only thing which I did not include in the backport are the changes in neo_bank.c, which are updates to the 4.3 infrastructure and don't change the behaviour of the driver. It would be really nice if you include it in the 4.2.1 erratum.
I'll have to explore consideration of this at a later time. Quite swamped right now. Deferring for now.
Just going through my deferred bug reports and cleaning up, etc. right now. As much as I'd like to backport and add this to future 8.0 erratum, there are just way to many bugs that are open unfortunately. ;o/ There's not really much time to spend on doing these types of enhancement additions, and 4.3.0 is out now, available for phoebe beta on my ftp space on people.redhat.com. I realize there is a patch attached, but I can't just blindly apply things, I need to audit the code line by line to ensure there are not any regressions. With changes like that, it is sometimes hard if not impossible to tell. Also, with no neomagic hardware, it is even more risky, as there wont be enough people beta testing it before potential release to give good regression testing. Your best bet is to upgrade to our new OS release when it is finalized and released. Second to that, would be to install phoebe beta 3, and alternative to that, some users have rebuilt my src.rpm on 8.0 after rebuilding a few rawhide packages to some degree of success. Sorry I wont have time to work this in to 8.0 now though. ;o/ Closing WONTFIX
I fully understand, no problem. Thanks for taking time to answer the request. If anyone is interested in having this functionality under RH 8.0 I did build a binary driver with the above patch, which is available for download at http://ltswww.epfl.ch/~dsanta/resources/soft/
Ouups, above URL should have been http://ltswww.epfl.ch/~dsanta/resources/linux
An errata has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2003-066.html