On Wednesday 31 December 2003 13:05, Ben Francis wrote:
In Debian X won't start with the ati driver so I'm using the vesa driver. When I play DVDs the X11 video output manages to play a DVD but very poor quality. the xvidix and xv video outputs both do nothing at all.
What should I try next?
Thanks tola ^/.
The vesa drivers represent the lowest common denominator of graphics card features over a standard command set. This is why they work with most modern cards. However they give very poor performance, no 2D acceleration, no 3D acceleration, no access to texture memory etc... and quite possibly no access to whatever video overlay mode xv needs.
I think you should concentrate your efforts on getting the correct drivers for your Ati card working. AFAIK the X11 output does a software render to a window box, poor quality and resource consuming. the overlay modes I think xv uses open a video window and then pipe a raster image stream over to the card.