Hi Phil, thanks for your offered help. At the moment I am back to the matroxfb setting that we were using successfully over the last years. I broke our freevo machine completly by all this experimenting with directfb (to much upgrades of to many packages, finally I lost myself somewhere).
But when I have freevo running again more or less reliable I will return to the directfb problem. At the moment fixing the recordserver has a slightly higher priority ;-) I would appreciate, if you can post your current settings. Which directfb-version are you running? Which kernel? Which kernel modules are needed? As I said, I can not find i2c-matroxfb. Do I need it? Should it be in the kernel source or is it an extra package? Do you have any bootscripts, any special settings for mplayer or freevo? What resolution (modes) are you using? Are you running freevo as root or is there a way to run it as user? You see, I am totaly confused with the whole subject and actually the documentation is very rare, very old and not always helpful. So any hint you can give would be great! Regards Tanja Philip Armstrong schrieb: > Tanya, I'm running freevo with exactly this setup (G400, directfb > mplayer / freevo output). I've also got the SNES emulator working with > directfb as well for some old-school gaming goodness... > On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 12:00:18PM +0100, Tanja wrote: >> Actually I tried with mplayer so far, but thanks a lot for the hint >> with directfb-extras, I was already wondering where to find >> df_xine. I will try that as soon as possible. I am using 1.0.1 by >> the way, but the kernel is very recent (2.6.22) > >> From your directfbrc I learn that I should not load matrox-marven as >> a module and that I need i2c-matroxfb. I will look into that, but it >> seems that I am missing i2c-matroxfb. That should be in the kernel >> source, shouldn't it? > > Exactly. If you load the matroxfb_maven module, then directfb can't > take control of the hardware from userspace, since the kernel module > has got its hands on it. > >> Thanks for your help. I will report back... Hopefully I get it >> running this weekend, otherwise I will have to try to revert back to >> the old setup, as my husband gets unhappy after over a week without >> freevo ;-) > > I have the same problem: Whenever anything breaks my wife turns to me > and says "You've been upgrading it again haven't you?" Fortunately, > nothing's gone wrong recently :) > > I think I've posted my directfb / freevo settings to the freevo lists > in the past, so you can just search for them, or prod me & I'll post > the current versions when I get a chance (The box in question is off > at the moment & I'm not anywhere near it.) > > cheers, Phil > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
