Xv not working with VIA VT8378

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bdonlan · Post by **bdonlan** » Sat Aug 14, 2004 5:50 am

I recently got a new computer with a " VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8378 [S3 UniChrome] Integrated Video" controller (according to lspci), but xv is not working. I am using xorg-x11-6.7.0-r2.

My xorg.conf is as follows:

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Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "X.org Configured"
	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
	InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
	RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
	ModulePath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc/"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Speedo/"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/CID/"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
EndSection

Section "Module"
	Load  "record"
	Load  "extmod"
	Load  "dbe"
	Load  "dri"
	Load  "glx"
	Load  "xtrap"
	Load  "freetype"
	Load  "type1"
	Load  "speedo"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	Driver      "keyboard"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Mouse0"
	Driver      "mouse"
	Option	    "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
	Option	    "Device" "/dev/gpmdata"
	Option	    "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "Monitor0"
	VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
	ModelName    "Monitor Model"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        ### Available Driver options are:-
        ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
        ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
        ### [arg]: arg optional
        #Option     "A2"                 	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "NoAccel"            	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "HWCursor"           	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "SWCursor"           	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "ShadowFB"           	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "Rotate"             	# [<str>]
        #Option     "UseBIOS"            	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "VideoRAM"           	# <i>
        #Option     "ActiveDevice"       	# [<str>]
        #Option     "LCDDualEdge"        	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "BusWidth"           	# [<str>]
        #Option     "Center"             	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "PanelSize"          	# [<str>]
        #Option     "TVDotCrawl"         	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "TVType"             	# [<str>]
        #Option     "TVOutput"           	# [<str>]
        #Option     "TVVScan"            	# [<str>]
        #Option     "TVHScale"           	# [<str>]
        #Option     "TVEncoder"          	# [<str>]
        #Option     "Refresh"            	# <i>
        #Option     "DisableVQ"          	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "NoDDCValue"         	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "Cap0Deinterlace"    	# [<str>]
        #Option     "Cap1Deinterlace"    	# [<str>]
        #Option     "Cap0FieldSwap"      	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "DRIXINERAMA"        	# [<bool>]
	Identifier  "Card0"
	Driver      "via"
	VendorName  "Unknown Vendor"
	BoardName   "Unknown Board"
	BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Card0"
	Monitor    "Monitor0"
	DefaultDepth 24
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Modes     "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
		Depth     1
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Modes     "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
		Depth     4
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Modes     "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
		Depth     8
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Modes     "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
		Depth     15
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Modes     "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
		Depth     16
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Modes     "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
		Depth     24
	EndSubSection
EndSection

xvinfo returns:

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X-Video Extension version 2.2
screen #0
 no adaptors present

Additionally, running mplayer with -vo sdl results in corrupted output, though -vo x11 works.

b_Q · Post by **b_Q** » Sat Aug 14, 2004 6:49 am

Hi
Hope it's
# This loads the Video for Linux module.
Load "v4l"
missing in your "XF86Config" file.

bdonlan · Post by **bdonlan** » Sat Aug 14, 2004 6:44 pm

Didn't work

And I thought v4l was video input, not output?

b_Q · Post by **b_Q** » Sun Aug 15, 2004 7:07 am

Merde: forgive taste of my failing neurons and ignorance!
So dug a little.
(xfree, nvidia and working XVideo here)

Where and when xvideo extensions get loaded
according to my /var/log/XFree86.0.log.

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...
(II) LoadModule: "extmod"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libextmod.a
(II) Module extmod: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
	compiled for 4.3.0.1, module version = 1.0.0
	Module class: XFree86 Server Extension
	ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.2
(II) Loading extension SHAPE
(II) Loading extension MIT-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD
(II) Loading extension BIG-REQUESTS
(II) Loading extension SYNC
(II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
(II) Loading extension XC-MISC
(II) Loading extension XFree86-VidModeExtension
(II) Loading extension XFree86-Misc
(II) Loading extension DPMS
(II) Loading extension FontCache
(II) Loading extension TOG-CUP
(II) Loading extension Extended-Visual-Information
(II) Loading extension XVideo
(II) Loading extension XVideo-MotionCompensation
(II) Loading extension X-Resource
...

subject to /etc/X11/XF86Config

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---
# This loads the miscellaneous extensions module, and disables
# initialisation of the XFree86-DGA extension within that module.

    SubSection  "extmod"
        Option  "omit xfree86-dga"
    EndSubSection
---

(Option "omit xfree86-dga" has no effect here on xvideo extension)

My xfree archive /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libextmod.a
contains
bigreq.o EVI.o modinit.o shape.o xf86dga2.o xf86vmode.o xvmain.o
cup.o fontcache.o sampleEVI.o sync.o xf86dga.o xres.o xvmc.o
dpms.o mitmisc.o saver.o xcmisc.o xf86misc.o xvdisp.o xvmod.o
-----------------------------------

Are XVideo extensions present in your xorg "libextmod.a" ?
( load/run something else in(?) /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/ for xorg-dri-S3 ?)

Are they loaded but not working ?

hih and gratitude for new ignorance start point.