Fedora 7 Test Update: xorg-x11-drv-i810-2.1.0-1.fc7

[Peter Robinson]

> Peter Robinson wrote:
> >
> >
> > You should be able to get the src.rpm and rebuild it on F7 without any
> > problems against the currently installed xserver and libs and install
> > it without issue.
> >
> > Peter
> Thanks, I did this and now I can run 1080p at 50 and 24 Hz with good picture quality... However, video playback is jerky.
>
> Looking at the XOrg.0.log I see no major errors except for the "(EE) intel(0): Unable to write to SDVOCTRL_E for ..." one that I've seen before.
>
> Checking glxinfo gives me an error code, and I cannot run GLX applications.
>
> "glxinfo
> name of display: :0.0
> Urecognized deviceID 29c2
> X Error of failed request: GLXBadContext
> ...
> "
>
> Running mplayer -vo xv  works, but like I said, video playback is jerky...
>
> What to do? Where to look?
>

You might want to check some of the threads on the xorg mailing list
about the driver. I know there's some issues with Xv and 1080 but
you'll see the details in the treads

P