Ashley- How is the project coming? Evan On 8/28/06, John Molohan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ashley Dawkins wrote: > > > > Hi, one thing about Freevo is that there are many ways to achieve the > > same result. Based on the articles in the Wiki and a good price on the > > card, I purchased a Matrox G400. I have a good Freevo setup for a > > standalone Media Centre style box, but moving it to a completely > > monitor/keyboard/mouse free set-up is giving me some grief. I have > > followed the articles in the Wiki to get TV out, I use the mga drivers > > from the Mplayer source with good results, but I find I am unable to > > tweak the configuration to my satisfaction. Some of this is outside > > the scope of the Freevo project, but hopefully someone who has a nice > > standalone solution can offer some most welcome words of wisdom. > > > > I will step through my 'niggles' > > > > 1. I use lilo to boot the system, which initially outputs to the TV > > when it is connected to the composite connection on the second > > head of the G400. As the kernel output starts, this only appears > > on the monitor. I was looking at the nice bootspalsh solution in > > the skins section, but if I only had the TV connected, my > > current configuration would not show this. > > > I believe there is a firmware update you can get from the Matrox site > that is needed to enable this output. I haven't tried it because you > need to be running windows :( > > > > 2. I have the commands to enable TV out in my rc.local as per the > > Wiki. When executed, I have the TV output back with no output on > > the monitor. > > > > 3. When I start Freevo, I get output to both the monitor and the > > TV. Okay, I could disconnect the monitor and achieve what I am > > after, but I still don't get what is going on and I would like > > to understand it. > > > Wierd, did the other post on the directfb configuration help? > > > > 3. > > > > > > I would love to be able to contribute to the Wiki, but the bits are > > not quite gelling together for me to feel confident about doing this. > > Any help or suggestions to overcome the above issues would be very > > much appreciated, as would any other suggestions or comments regarding > > a standalone project. Has anyone used a microdrive in a project, and > > if so, how does it perform? > > > > My box is based on Slackware 10.2 with Freevo 1.5.4. > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > No problem. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Freevo-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users >
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