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  1. Bug #654876
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 654876

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In , Chris Wilson (ickle) wrote :

In the short-term there is nothing we can do but to disable XVideo on Sandybridge -- the shaders have not yet been written. :(

commit 8784c4f5a1524fb979b00c7ce7981cbc1dcf0ec0
Author: Chris Wilson <email address hidden>
Date: Fri Oct 1 21:40:36 2010 +0100

    video: Disable TextureAdaptor for Sandybridge

    The acceleration code does not yet exist, so we try to use gen4 shaders
    which hangs the chip and makes everybody upset. Disable it until such a
    time as support is written for Sandybridge XVideo.

    Reported-by: Matthias Hopf <email address hidden>
    Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30500
    Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <email address hidden>