hey crew, i've been out for the last year or two, life's tribulations i had to attend to. now back, and i'm asking all of you, what's up with viafb, what's new?
ok, silly rhyme time is over. i've been scouring the intertron for the last few days gathering information on cle266 and the state of dvrs, carputers, pvrs, settop boxes, linux framebuffer, and all the mess that goes along with it. i've tried a few things, changed a few things, and i'm switching gears. i'm searching for the promised land -- that plane of existance where tv-out on my nehemiah board does something that doesn't require me to synchronize motor functions of my neck with the flyback transformer in my tv. seems the refresh rate is always wrong, but close enough that it might just be running 50Hz rather than the 60Hz used in the land i come from. i find it interesting that, when i boot into text mode (no framebuffer), my xenarc 700ts 7" LCD touchscreen display reports 720x400 and my TV displays the output superbly. every other mode and kernel i've experienced with has never given me a stable display on my tv. add to that the fact that the patcher2k 2.6 patch apparently eats kernel arguments and craps them into an invisible toliet. so, all of my tweaking and testing has had to take place by changing code, recompiling the kernel, and rebooting. needless to say, it isn't very efficient. also i find the lack of fb modes for NTSC signals disturbing. yes, i know convergence was a german firm and it appears that most dfb developers are from the other side of the pond than i am, but i expect at least one 60Hz mode. i have scoured and googled and grepped and typed and hacked and slashed and compiled and tweaked; and i just haven't found the right combination of magical ingredients. does anyone have a linux system with cle266 and NTSC tvout working that would be willing to share their arcane knowledge? thanks, -mike _______________________________________________ directfb-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.directfb.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/directfb-users
