Re: BTTV - experimental no_overlay patch

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab]

Bodo,

	Please, send me bttv init logs. I need to know if PCI quirks has
detected your PCI chipset as a problematic one.

Em Qui, 2005-08-04 às 01:02 +0200, Bodo Eggert escreveu:
> Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > This small patch will allow no_overlay flag to disable BTTV driver to
> > report OVERLAY capabilities. It should fix your troubles by enabling
> > no_overlay=1 when inserting bttv module.
> > 
> > This patch is against our CVS tree, but should apply with some hunk on
> > 2.6.13-rc4 or 2.6.13-rc5.
> > 
> > I'll generate a new one at morning, against 2.6.13-rc5 hopefully to
> > have it applied at 2.6.13, since it fixes an OOPS.
> 
> The CVS line will off cause not apply, and I needed to change
> s/static// int no_overlay in bttv-cards.c.
	Strange. At CVS it worked even with static. But it should be ok. 
> 
> The picture is less distorted by pci activity with no_overlay=1, and it
> feels like the stable interface I used with my nvidia+2.4+XF86 before
> upgrading to 2.6+radeon+X.org. No OOPS within the first few minutes:).
	That's good!

Mauro.

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