[Softdevice-devel] Re: Towards softdevice-0.1.1

[Martin Wache]

Stefan Lucke wrote:
> On Donnerstag, 7. April 2005 17:46, Martin Wache wrote:
> 
>>Torgeir Veimo wrote:
>>
>>>On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 11:04 +0200, Stefan Lucke wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>I get sometimes similar errors. I got them even in previous versions
>>>>before
>>>>I used the max available area. That happens when I had one or several
>>>>browser
>>>>windows of vdr-portal open. Closing them resolves the situation. It
>>>>looks like
>>>>card memory is used for caching of pixmaps and when the xv should be
>>>>realized on
>>>>screen, the xserver does not get enough contigues memory for that on
>>>>the video
>>>>card.
>>
>>For me this happens even when I only load gnome and vdr. I also tried 
>>the resolution 1280x768, which fails. I guess the XServer reporting that 
>>it is capable of doing 2048x2048 is just wrong.
> 
> 
> One possibility. What card and what amount of memory does it have ?
> Do you have dri/drm enabled ? If yes, please retry with dri/drm diabled.
> 
> 
>>>
>>>We might to install a special X error handler. X errors can happen when
>>>telling the screensaver to stay away as well. The one in xscreensaver.c
>>>can be extended a bit to handle fallback on those errors.
>>>
>>
>>I think this would be a good solution, we could fallback to the default 
>>resolution if there is not enough memory for HDTV. If there is not even 
>>enough for default resolution we can still give a meaningfull error message.
> 
> 
> As you said XSync() spites out the error, this is very (too) late to take a
> reasonable error action. The only one is to my opinion is: suspending
> video-out.
I guess you are right...
> 
> So we need an OSD option XV max-area [YES|NO] default no. To take effect
> restart vdr (immediate action would be something like suspend -> resume).
> 
I think that would be possible. But since the time is limited I would 
suggest just to introduce a compiler option for this release and think 
about a more clever solution for the next...

Bye,
Martin
Martin