I have a debian system with a matrox g550 in my living room with only a tv connected to crtc2. I've been using mplayer -vo dfbmga via an ssh shell to play movies and this works perfectly.
Recently I have decided it would be nice to be able to start/stop/pause the movie without running to the other room to hit the spacebar, so I pulled dfbterm (and dependants) from cvs and compiled it succesfully. I had some problems at first with the whiterabbit font that couldn't be found, but I solved that by installing msttcorefonts. The only thing is, that after starting dfbterm, the tv screen turns blue-ish with some orange blocks on it representing letters. The terminal works, though because I can start mplayer from there, typing blind.
All in all, it solved part of the problem, because I can run: dfbterm -c "mplayer mymovie.avi", but I still like to get it to work correctly.
Probably useful: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /etc/directfbrc matrox-crtc2 matrox-tv-standard=pal primary-layer=2 # tried this, didn't work: #fbdev=/dev/fb0 #pixelformat=YV12 #vt-switching
Has anyone had the same problem and solved it? Am I missing something? Many thanks in advance, Matthijs Wensveen
