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- Start capturing by pressing "c" or by selecting it via a menu!!!
- The memory of some S3 cards is not recognized right:
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First of all, if you are not using XFree-3.2 or newer, upgrade AT LEAST to
XFree-3.2A! This solved the problem for most people.
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(mostly with Trio 64 but also with some others)
Get the free demo version of Accelerated X from www.xinside.com and try
bttv with it. bttv seems to work with most S3 cards with Accelerated X.
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Since I do not know much (better make that almost nothing) about VGA card
programming I do not know the reason for this.
Looks like XFree does something different when setting up the video memory?
- Maybe somebody can enlighten me?
- Would be nice if somebody could get this to work with XFree since
- Accelerated X costs more than some of the grabber cards ...
-
+ Maybe somebody can enlighten me?
+ Would be nice if somebody could get this to work with XFree since
+ Accelerated X costs more than some of the grabber cards ...
+
Better linear frame buffer support for S3 cards will probably be in
XFree 4.0.
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- Grabbing is not switched off when changing consoles with XFree.
That's because XFree and some AcceleratedX versions do not send unmap
events.
- Some popup windows (e.g. of the window manager) are not refreshed.
-
+
Disable backing store by starting X with the option "-bs"
- When using 32 bpp in XFree or 24+8bpp mode in AccelX 3.1 the system