No XVideo support for Radeon HD 4200?

Robert Noland rnoland at FreeBSD.org
Thu Mar 18 10:58:48 UTC 2010


On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 18:56 -0400, george+freebsd at m5p.com wrote:
> > On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 21:11 -0400, george+freebsd at m5p.com wrote:
> > > HP Compaq Presario CQ61-420US (dual core amd64)
> > > ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200
> > > 
> > > Xorg starts and loads the extmod module with the the XVideo extension,
> > > and then a little later the radeon module, according to Xorg.0.log,
> > > but xvinfo says
> >
> > This lacks a lot of detail... like what version of FreeBSD and Xorg
> > ports are you using.  An Xorg log at least would be useful.
> >
> > robert.
> >
> 
> Sorry: 8.0-RELEASE, Xorg 7.4.2.
> Log at http://www.m5p.com/~george/Xorg.0.log.txt

Ok, it looks like you are running without an xorg.conf... Please
generate one with X -configure.  Then add Option "DRI" and Option
"AccelMethod" "EXA" to the device section.  You may also want to enable
AIGLX depending on your intended goal.

robert.

> > > X-Video Extension version 2.2
> > > screen #0
> > >  no adaptors present
> > > 
> > > Needless to say, this gives poor performance for mplayer and such
> > > programs.  What's going on?                      -- George Mitchell
> > > 
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