On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 09:38:14PM +0200, Jesus Climent wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 08:27:05PM +0300, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 04:48:35PM +0200, Jesus Climent wrote:
> > <snip>
> > > However, when using 
> > > 
> > > mplayer -vo dfbmga movie.avi
> > > 
> > > I just get a picture with too much color saturation, that leads to an 
> > > image
> > > like 
> > > 
> > > http://www.pumuki.org/gallery/tvoutput/img_4736.jpg
> > 
> > Weird picture. I would recommend you try a fresh reboot and _don't_ touch 
> > matroxset. Then try mplayer -vo dfbmga and if the picture is still bad try 
> > to adjust the saturation, contrast etc. (keys 1 through 8).
> 
> Just for the record...
> 
> When i start the machine, either with the s-video cable plugged into the tv or
> not, it starts with double output, so i get the console (and later on X) both
> in fb0 and fb1.

You're not running X (other that XDirectFB) at the same time on the same 
card as DirectFB are you?

> But directfb output works. I will check if it works with the same problem or
> not.
> 
> On the other hand, i tried with the saturation on mplayer and it seems it does
> not affect the hardware saturation (looks like there are two levels, the
> hardware one and the software one, the former being controled by matroxset and
> the later being controled by mplayer... but i might be wrong here).

mplayer -vo dfbmga does control the hardware saturation and it looks like 
-vo directfb should too.

> On the other hand, do you think it might be a faulty card? I can try with
> another one (i think i have up to 5 of those, from different machines that
> were trashed some time ago).

That's one possibility. Some other hardware difference could be another 
explanation. What revision is you G450 chip? lspci will show it.

-- 
Ville Syrjälä
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