Comment 17 for bug 339233

Can someone of the devs say something about the problem or at least give some very good reasons? This is serious.

I mean textured video output is standard in the intel driver for years and it still doesn't work because of the tearing or missing vsync.

Another thing I don't understand is why overlay can't be enabled with the VideoOverlay xorg.conf option anymore? Nearly all Intel graphic cards seem to support overlay so why mess it up for them too?

This all means that video output doesn't really work since ages and all distributions need patches.

I have an i915 card but according to https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/278318 many others are also effected.