RE: xv crashes with nm2360

Michael St. Laurent writes:
 > What OverlayMem setting would be appropriate on an NM2160 chipset which I
 > think uses 2MB of system RAM as video memory?

You need at least ((video_width + 1) * video_hight * 2) bytes.

Egbert.

 > 
 > -- 
 > 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.
 > > 
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