[Savage40] Savage IX problem with TVout and xv

[Alex Deucher]

--- Shufeng Zheng <z_sfeng at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I don't know if this is the right place to post. If not, please tell
> me 
> where I can find the answer...
> I using  xorg-6.8.0. The savage driver and s3switch work almost 
> perfectly on my omnibook xe3 laptop with a savage IX-MV.
> 
> The only problem is: when I try to output video to TV, with xv, the 
> image is offset to right bottom of the TV screen.
> 
> I use mplayer. It is perfect when I select "x11" as video output
> device 
> ("mplayer -vo x11 "). I can switch between LCD and TV at anytime,
> even 
> when playing.
> 
> But with xv and sdl ("mplayer -vo xv" or "-vo sdl"), after I switch
> the 
> video output to TV, the video always has offset. That is: the video 
> drift to right-bottom of the TV screen( maybe about 200pixel, about
> the 
> difference of 1024x768 and 800x600), both in windowed and full screen
> 
> mode. Other parts in the desktop is normal.
> 
> A bypass is: switch to TV mode in console, before X starts. Then
> start X 
> with OPTION "PAL", and every thing is perfect...
> 
> I prefer to use xv since video with xv is more fluent and consumes
> less 
> CPU resources. Actually sometime I have to. And I hate changing X 
> configuration file and restart X...Any help?
> 

You might try with a xorg cvs snapshot.  I've been doing some work on
Xv lately and I may have fixed this bug, however, I've never really
messed with tv-out.

Alex


		
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