Hi Karl, had a look at the bootsplash option, which sort of started my problems, as I can only seem to get output to the monitor, not the TV, during the boot process. There is a nice bootsplash download in the themes section of the Freevo site, which I was hoping to use. My current setup has the TV out initialized in my rc.local, which is well past the point of the bootsplash. I am currently hunting around the Matox forums; there is a fairly recent BIOS update for the card, so I might pop it into an old Windoze box I have, and update it to see if that makes a difference. The thing that I find confusing, is that the LILO boot screen displays to the TV when connected (at this point obviously I have not run any of the commands to move frame buffers etc, as per the How-To), but as the kernel boot messages appear, they only display on the monitor. This is possibly my lack of understanding about how the Matrox FB drivers work/should be configured, but don't really know ????
As far as hardware/configuration goes, I have a workable Freevo install on Slackware 10.1, with which I am quite familiar, so not a problem at the moment, but I would be keen to look at getting to an almost 'embedded' type install, hopefully on a micro-drive or flash card, but not researched that fully; that was to be the next stage once the actual 'proof was in the pudding'. As for location, I am in the South West, about 9 miles East of Bath. Cheers for now, Ashley. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Karl Lattimer Sent: 11 September 2006 19:04 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] Best standalone Freevo solution. Hi Ashley, You mentioned pretty boot process; http://www.bootsplash.org/ Try that, suse have been using it for a while, you can do things like animations (fbmngplay) and progress bars using it, and its not as bulky as RHGB. as far as hardware is concerned a good UK provider is https://linitx.com/ I could probably help out with building a distribution especially for freevo... Are you going to linux from scratch it? I personally would prefer to build it out of a seriously trimmed down redhat/fedora or ubuntu. I don't have a great deal of time however with the projects I'm currently involved in. The advantage of fedora is anaconda which can be used to build a bootable install disc from whatever packages are on an installed system. The advantage of ubuntu is the live CD aspect. I also have some SVGs of the freevo logo and a device I did a while back which unfortunately I've still not managed to complete a website with. K, PS. Where abouts in the UK are you? On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 18:47 +0100, Ashley Dawkins wrote: > Hi Evan, still not going as I would like, but not had as much time as I > would like to experiment further :¬( Still interested in any information > regarding a standalone solution, especially a nice looking process to boot > directly into Freevo. > > Thanks. > > Ashley. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Evan Hisey > Sent: 09 September 2006 19:10 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] Best standalone Freevo solution. > > Ashley- > How is the project coming? > Evan > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
