On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 07:47:20PM +0100, Tanja wrote: > 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? I think root is required. You might be able to tie things down, but it would at the very least require some udev hackery to give the user in question access to the relevant i2c device nodes. > 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! OK. Here's my current setup. Hardware first: Biostar IDEQ 210V, 1GHz Duron, 256Mb memory, 16Mb Dual Head G400, Microsoft Media Centre remote control, PCI Technotrend DVB tuner card. The machine is running Debian stable, with a stock kernel. (well, a backported stock kernel to be precise...) Following modules are loaded at boot time: usbcore rtc rtc-cmos fusion i2c-dev i2c-matroxfb matroxfb_crtc2 lirc_mceusb2 The second half are freevo/directfb related fusion is directfb related, but isn't strictly necessary. I'm using the stock Debian stable directfb release, which is old now (0.9.25), but means I don't have to faff about recompiling mplayer and libSDL. The only small bug is that on power-on, freevo has to be started twice for it to work correctly -- it always fails to initialised the directfb layer correctly the first time (this is a bug in directfb rather than freevo: I can start any directfb app first, watch it die & then run freevo subsequently. Weird I know...) mplayer and other media-related stuff is installed from http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ freevo is hand installed into /usr/local, with a startup script from an old debianised version which I installed yonks ago back in the 1.5.x days IIRC. Directfb settings: /etc/directfbrc matrox-crtc2 matrox-tv-standard=pal matrox-sgram mode=720x576 memcpy=MMXEXT primary-layer=02 #matrox-cable-type=scart-composite disable-module=ps2mouse mouse-source=/dev/input/mice disable-module=linux_input disable-module=joystick #disable-module=keyboard mouse-source=/dev/input/mice no-cursor agp=2 dma videoram-limit=16384 #videoram-limit=8192 #linux-input-ir-only no-vt-switch pixelformat=RGB32 #pixelformat=ARGB bg-color=00FF00FF graphics-vt Not all of these are strictly necessary :) Freevo settings: grep -v "#" /etc/freevo/boot_config : FREEVO_HOME="/usr/local/freevo" FREEVO_LOG="/var/log/freevo/main.log" FREEVO="yes" WEBSERVER="no" RECORDSERVER="yes" HAVEMOUSE="no" HAVEKEYBOARD="no" SDL_VIDEODRIVER="directfb" ROOTUSERINFO="no" SETNUMLOCK="no" /etc/freevo/freevo/conf : cdparanoia = /usr/bin/cdparanoia display = dfbmga flac = /usr/bin/flac geometry = 768x576 lame = /usr/bin/lame lsdvd = /usr/bin/lsdvd #mencoder = /usr/local/bin/mencoder #mplayer = /usr/local/bin/mplayer mencoder = /usr/bin/mencoder mplayer = /usr/bin/mplayer oggenc = /usr/bin/oggenc renice = /usr/bin/renice setterm = /usr/bin/setterm tv = pal tvtime = /usr/bin/tvtime version = 2.1 #fbxine=/usr/bin/fbxine recording is done by mplayer from the DVB card: I haven't tried any of the new DVB code in freevo yet, although I've got the sources to dvbstreamer waiting for some round tuits. Hope that helps some. Phil -- http://www.kantaka.co.uk/ .oOo. public key: http://www.kantaka.co.uk/gpg.txt ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
