Hi,
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
Not answering your dfbterm question, but you might want to have a look on Freevo http://www.freevo.org which is a HTPC software allowing you to use mplayer from the remote control just like that, whithout having to run to the other room to the remote console. Works with DirectFB if you don't compile libSDL-1.2.6 with gcc 3.4 (this is the only reason it broke on my system right now and I don't want to downgrade gcc, as Freevo soon will work directly on DirectFB without SDL). As for freevo, if you want to try it, your directfbrc misses just "mode=720x576" (as you're using PAL).
Lucian
