RE: xv crashes with nm2360

"Michael St. Laurent" <[email protected]> Mon, 24 Jun 2002 13:37:19 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.xfree86.neomagic
Message-ID <91A5926EFF44D3118B1200104B7276EB010854BF@hart-exchange.hartwellcorp.com>
What OverlayMem setting would be appropriate on an NM2160 chipset which I
think uses 2MB of system RAM as video memory?

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Michael St. Laurent
Hartwell Corporation

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank Fiene [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Sunday, June 23, 2002 2:23 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Neomagic] xv crashes with nm2360
> 
> 
> On Sonntag, 23. Juni 2002 10:18, Egbert Eich wrote:
> 
> > Frank,
> >
> > SuSE 8.0 uses the 4.2 driver with Xv support added
> > including a set of fixes I made. It is essentially
> > the same code as in cvs as I've merged it in there.
> >
> > People have been playing video on Neomagic with
> > great success.
> >
> > Due to hw limitations you may have to specify the amount
> > of memory you want to allocate for Xv. This is especially
> > true for larger videos like DVDs.
> >
> > Option "OverlayMem" 900000
> >
> > in the "Device" section does it.
> >
> > Is this what you are looking for?
> 
> Hi Egbert,
> 
> yes, i lost the mailing with this option from our xv for neomagic 
> discussion, thanks.
>