[arch-dev-public] xf86-video-nouveau/nouveau-drm in testing

Xavier shiningxc at gmail.com
Thu Mar 12 20:25:52 EDT 2009


On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> If I usually don't need 3D support, I do need xv for video playback.
> This didn't work by default.
> I was told to run a composite manager (xcompmgr is enough) to make it
> work, so I enabled composite extension in xorg, ran xcompmgr, and
> everything worked fine.
>
> http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20612
>

Ah something I didn't understand before : this only concerns NV50
chipset ( GeForce 8, GeForce 9, GeForce GTX2x0 )


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