On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 17:43:14 -0800 (PST)
Sergey Melikhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> G450
> matrox-crtc2
> matrox-tv-standard=ntsc
> primary-layer=2
> fbdev=/dev/fb0
> no-vt-switch
> graphics-vt
> sync

Could I just confirm something...

I'm using a single G550 providing dual head, one monitor for XFree86 and
one monitor is the TV (or would be if I could get this to work)...

So far I have the matrox kernel modules presenting two framebuffers,
with X in fb0 and fb1 "spare" for media.

My aim is to run freevo "dumb" (don't care about keyboard input) on fb1
and leave the rest of the PC useable on fb0 with X, VT switching etc
without disturbing fb1 and freevo

No problem using mplayer by itself - but using freevo with the fbcon
driver, two things happen:

1) It wants to be started from a real VT (not a random X term) - that's
soluble with a suitable inittab 

2) When I switch VT back to X or anywhere else, any attempt to control
freevo using "freevo remote" will hang freevo waiting for its VT to come
back (I can see that in strace). I know why that happens for typical
usage, but it's irrelevant in my case, as freevo is driving it's own
personal framebuffer.

Before I go to the trouble of patching the fbcon driver in SDL to not do
VT_ ioctls I was wondering if directfb was more likely to achieve what I
want.

Thanks for any pointers :)

Tim


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