Hi folks,
as setting up DirectFB is sometimes tricky or can even get annoying, even if someone thinks he managed it, it's enough to _have_ to re-install a distro from scratch for instance, and voil� - you're getting different versions of development tools, kernel, even DirectFB itself maybe, and you think you messed up everything.
I just asked something about setting up df_xine for DirectFB on the freevo IRC channel this evening (I intend to use it in the end from CVS Freevo with pyvdr), and Dischi came up with the idea we should collect working DirectFB setups, I think and hope the results will end up in the Wiki. So what do you think?
It would be of great use if all of you having managed such a setup would reply to this original posting (to avoid endless quoting, except when really related to some already published configs) and include following information:
- graphics card;
- kernel version;
- kernel boot parameters if relevant for your framebuffer setup (for VGA/DVI and/or TV-out with various cable types);
- framebuffer-relevant kernel configuration lines from .config (even if things are compiled-in monolythic, or as modules, and then preferably the order of module loading, do not think this is unimportant :-) )
- DirectFB:
- version (even if CVS);
- configuration file /etc/directfbrc (for VGA/DVI and/or
TV-out with various cable types);
- output of dfbinfo(for VGA/DVI and/or TV-out with
various cable types);
- working (and if they really work as expected, or just how good/incomplete they work) multimedia applications like mplayer, Freevo+SDL+pygame, Freevo2+pydfb, maybe even Freevo2+bmovl2, VDR+softdevice, df_xine (especially if someone managed to make it work with vdr-xine), and their versions (even if CVS) + DFB-specific configurations, command line args and even environment variables (SDL comes to my mind).
Did I forget something? Anyway, please share your experience, we should make our lives easier and put then everything in the Freevo2 Wiki.
Regards, Lucian
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