On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 09:46:19PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Ville Syrj�l� writes: 
> 
> <long explanation :) >
> thanks a lot... now everything is clearer... -vo dfbmga is definitely the 
> way to go then :) 

Of course ;)

> >> matroxfb_proc: proc-interface driver?  
> >  
> > No idea. What kernel version is this? 2.4.20 doesn't seem to have this 
> > module. 
> kernel 2.4.21 has it, too iirc. 2.4.22-pre10 which I am using right now has 
> it.
> when loaded, there is a lot of information in /proc/drivers/mga
> with this tool it's more human readable... if matroxcard is not at /dev/fb0 
> source needs to be patched to use /dev/fb1 ... 
> http://platan.vc.cvut.cz/ftp/pub/linux/matrox-latest/matrox_pins-0.1.tar.gz

Ah ok. That's the info stored in the card BIOS. Max clocks, memory info
etc.

> ok... now back to directfb....
> I have been playing around with dfbinfo now:
>  ----
> Display Layers 
> 
> (00) FBDev Primary Layer             (primary layer)
>        Type: graphics
>        Caps: brightness contrast saturation surface 
> 
> (01) Matrox Backend Scaler
>        Type: graphics picture video
>        Caps: brightness contrast deinterlacing dst_colorkey screen_location 
> surface 
> 
> (02) Matrox CRTC2
>        Type: graphics picture video
>        Caps: brightness contrast flicker_filtering hue saturation surface 
> 
> (03) Matrox CRTC2 Sub-Picture
>        Type: graphics picture video
>        Caps: alphachannel opacity surface
>  ----
> (00) seems to be the layer of the vesa-frambuffer running on the nvidia 
> card.

No it's matrox CRTC1. This looks fine.

> in both cases dfbinfo still blacks the output on the nvidia card, I have to 
> switch consoles to get the picture back. 

Strange.

> p.s. may i compile a webpage from this thread and especially your answers?

Sure. I've thought about doing a matrox FAQ but never actually did.

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Ville Syrj�l�
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