> 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?

You don't say exactly which versions you've been trying.

I would suggest that you use the latest DirectFB from CVS and the
'linux-viafb' framebuffer, also from DirectFB CVS.

On the CLE266, this supports a range of video modes and most have
corresponding configurations for the TV encoder that should give you a
nice TV picture, whether PAL or NTSC.

In addition, there's a 720x576 PAL mode that has no scaling or
filtering which gives an optimal output on a 625/PAL/50 TV.  There is
no corresponding NTSC mode because no-one has done the work to write
one.  Feel free.

This version of viafb certainly does support arguments passed when the
module is loaded (you'll need to make 'fbcon' a module and refrain
from loading it though if you ever want to remove the viafb module
during testing).

This route does have some limitations: some of the newer chips are not
wonderfully supported but if you really do have the CLE266 as you
suggest, and you have the VT1622 or VT1622A TV encoder, you should be
able to make things work.

Mark

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