Hi,
I am having a hard time getting softdevice-0.4.0 working on my system
(VDR 1.4.7, Ubuntu 7.10, X.org 7.2, ASUS A8N-VM CSM with onboard
GeForce 6150, not quite clear which version of the NVIDIA kernel
module is being used as it is all mashed into Ubuntu's
linux-restricted-modules package - probably 1.0-9639). My CRT TV is
connected to the NVIDIA's TV-OUT with an S-VIDEO cable. This setup is
working fine with MythTV (using the XvMC driver) as well as
xineliboutput (using the xv driver, getting weird effects with the
xxmc and xshm drivers though).
The issue I am seeing with softdevice is that I have a black screen
that displays the OSD just fine. In other words, the TV broadcasts are
not being displayed but I can see and use the VDR menus as well as
teletext and DVB subtitles (pretty weird seeing the subtitles
displayed v-a-v a black picture). Sound is very choppy, too, but
that's the lesser of my concerns right now.
One thing that might cause issues is that this graphics card does not
support a 768x576 resolution on the TV-Out. According to NVIDIA's
documentation, the resolutions on TV-Out are hard-coded (they don't
say which resolutions are available unfortunately). When I set 768x576
it is falling back to an internal default resolution of 720x576. I
tried several other resolutions (720x576, 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768).
They all produce the same effect (black output but OSD is displayed).
I am attaching the log messages I am getting from softdevice. Any
advice appreciated.
Fabian
Oct 21 12:02:44 star vdr: [10000] initializing plugin: softdevice (0.4.0): A
software emulated MPEG2 device
Oct 21 12:02:44 star vdr: [10000] [XvVideoOut]: patch version (2006-11-05)
Oct 21 12:02:44 star vdr: [10006] tuner on device 1 thread started (pid=10000,
tid=10006)
Oct 21 12:02:44 star vdr: [10007] section handler thread started (pid=10000,
tid=10007)
Oct 21 12:02:44 star vdr: [10000] [XvVideoOut]: Initialize XShmCreateImage
Successful (0x2aaaac5c94f0)
Oct 21 12:02:44 star vdr: [10000] [XvVideoOut]: Initialize shmget Successful
(2359296 bytes)
Oct 21 12:02:44 star vdr: [10000] [XvVideoOut]: Initialize shmat Successful
Oct 21 12:02:44 star vdr: [10000] [softdevice-xscreensaver]: xscreensaver not
running
Oct 21 12:02:44 star vdr: [10000] [XvVideoOut]: initialized OK
Oct 21 12:02:44 star vdr: [10000] [softdevice-xscreensaver]: disabling DPMS
Oct 21 12:02:44 star vdr: [10000] [softdevice-xscreensaver]: disabling DPMS
stat: 1
Oct 21 12:02:44 star vdr: [10000] [XvVideoOut]: NV17 Video Texture: available
ports 355 - 386
Oct 21 12:02:44 star vdr: [10000] [XvVideoOut]: grabbed port 355
Oct 21 12:02:44 star vdr: [10000] [XvVideoOut]: max area size 2046 x 2046
Oct 21 12:02:44 star vdr: [10000] [XvVideoOut]: using area size 736 x 576
Oct 21 12:02:44 star vdr: [10000] [XvVideoOut]: XV_SET_DEFAULTS
NOT-XvGettable XvSettable ( 0 [0x00000000] - 0 [0x00000000]) (
0 [0x00000000]
Oct 21 12:02:44 star vdr: [10000] [XvVideoOut]: XV_ITURBT_709
XvGettable XvSettable ( 0 [0x00000000] - 1 [0x00000001]) (
0 [0x00000000]
Oct 21 12:02:44 star vdr: [10000] [XvVideoOut]: XV_SYNC_TO_VBLANK
XvGettable XvSettable ( 0 [0x00000000] - 1 [0x00000001]) (
1 [0x00000001]
Oct 21 12:02:44 star vdr: [10000] [XvVideoOut]: using color key 0x1a0f00
Oct 21 12:02:44 star vdr: [10000] [XvVideoOut]: XvShmCreateImage Successful
(0x2aaaac5ca750)
Oct 21 12:02:44 star vdr: [10000] [XvVideoOut]: shmget Successful (0 bytes)
Oct 21 12:02:44 star vdr: [10000] [XvVideoOut]: shmat Successful
Oct 21 12:02:44 star vdr: [10000] [XvVideoOut]: XShmAttach rc = 1 (should be
OK)
Oct 21 12:02:44 star vdr: [10000] [softdevice] videoOut OK !
Oct 21 12:02:44 star vdr: [10000] [softdevice-audio-dummy] Device opened! Using
dummy device -> no audio!
...
Oct 21 12:02:44 star vdr: [10000] starting plugin: softdevice
Oct 21 12:02:44 star vdr: [10000] starting plugin: lcdproc
Oct 21 12:02:45 star vdr: [10008] [VideoOut]: 736x576 [0,0 736x576] -> 768x576
[0,6 768x562]
Oct 21 12:02:45 star vdr: [10008] [VideoOut]: 736x576 [0,0 736x576] -> 768x576
[0,6 768x562]
Oct 21 12:02:45 star vdr: [10008] [VideoOut]: 736x576 [0,0 736x576] -> 1024x768
[0,8 1024x749]
...
Oct 21 12:02:47 star vdr: [10008] [XvVideoOut]: NV17 Video Texture: available
ports 355 - 386
Oct 21 12:02:47 star vdr: [10008] [XvVideoOut]: grabbed port 355
Oct 21 12:02:47 star vdr: [10008] [XvVideoOut]: max area size 2046 x 2046
Oct 21 12:02:47 star vdr: [10008] [XvVideoOut]: using area size 736 x 576
Oct 21 12:02:47 star vdr: [10008] [XvVideoOut]: XV_SET_DEFAULTS
NOT-XvGettable XvSettable ( 0 [0x00000000] - 0 [0x00000000]) (
0 [0x00000000]
Oct 21 12:02:47 star vdr: [10008] [XvVideoOut]: XV_ITURBT_709
XvGettable XvSettable ( 0 [0x00000000] - 1 [0x00000001]) (
0 [0x00000000]
Oct 21 12:02:47 star vdr: [10008] [XvVideoOut]: XV_SYNC_TO_VBLANK
XvGettable XvSettable ( 0 [0x00000000] - 1 [0x00000001]) (
1 [0x00000001]
Oct 21 12:02:47 star vdr: [10008] [XvVideoOut]: using color key 0x1a0f00
Oct 21 12:02:47 star vdr: [10008] [XvVideoOut]: XvShmCreateImage Successful
(0x827c00)
Oct 21 12:02:47 star vdr: [10008] [XvVideoOut]: shmget Successful (0 bytes)
Oct 21 12:02:47 star vdr: [10008] [XvVideoOut]: shmat Successful
Oct 21 12:02:47 star vdr: [10008] [XvVideoOut]: XShmAttach rc = 1 (should be
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