[ltp] Re: How do you like your W500 or W700?

axp linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:53:30 +0100


Marius Gedminas wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 04:35:44PM +0100, Tino Keitel wrote:
>   
>> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 10:38:50 +0100, Christoph Bier wrote:
>>     
>>> Holger Levsen schrieb:
>>>       
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> On Dienstag, 10. Februar 2009, Christoph Bier wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> Watching video on my X200s doesn't work at all and using a projector
>>>>> doesn't work as it should.
>>>>>           
>>>> I assume you are using the vesa driver. You need newer xorg. No 
>>>> problems here :-D
>>>>         
>>> No, I'm not using the vesa driver. And I really doubt that Compiz would  
>>> run with the vesa driver. :-) As I'm using Ubuntu 8.10 I guess I'm using  
>>> a quite new Xorg. What's your version of Xorg and kernel? Does Google  
>>> Earth work for you?
>>>       
>> AFAIK the textured video XV port is disabled in the intel graphics
>> driver in Ubuntu 8.10, to workaround broken video with Compiz.
>>     
>
> It's not disabled (xvinfo shows both on my GM965), but I think Ubuntu
> ships a patch that changes the default preference to the overlay.
>
>   
>> The
>> X200s has a very new graphics chipset, which only has a textured video
>> XV port (no video overlay anymore), so you end up with no XV port at
>> all.
>>     
>
> Running xvinfo would answer that.
>
> Marius Gedminas
>   
Ubuntu 8.10  on a x301 but i guess the graphics are the same?!

ii  xserver-xorg                              
1:7.4~5ubuntu3                          the X.Org X server
ii  xserver-xorg-video-intel                   2:2.5.1-1ubuntu5~intrepid

smallz:~%xvinfo                                                                                                                        

X-Video Extension version 2.2
screen #0
  Adaptor #0: "Intel(R) Textured Video"
    number of ports: 16
    port base: 71
    operations supported: PutImage
    supported visuals:
      depth 24, visualID 0x21
    number of attributes: 2
      "XV_BRIGHTNESS" (range -128 to 127)
              client settable attribute
              client gettable attribute (current value is 0)
      "XV_CONTRAST" (range 0 to 255)
              client settable attribute
              client gettable attribute (current value is 0)
    maximum XvImage size: 1920 x 1088
    Number of image formats: 5
      id: 0x32595559 (YUY2)
        guid: 59555932-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71
        bits per pixel: 16
        number of planes: 1
        type: YUV (packed)
      id: 0x32315659 (YV12)
        guid: 59563132-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71
        bits per pixel: 12
        number of planes: 3
        type: YUV (planar)
      id: 0x30323449 (I420)
        guid: 49343230-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71
        bits per pixel: 12
        number of planes: 3
        type: YUV (planar)
      id: 0x59565955 (UYVY)
        guid: 55595659-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71
        bits per pixel: 16
        number of planes: 1
        type: YUV (packed)
      id: 0x434d5658 (XVMC)
        guid: 58564d43-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71
        bits per pixel: 12
        number of planes: 3
        type: YUV (planar)