Aha, I am indeed a PAL user, so that sounds okay doesn't the color sound inverted? maybe I just misunderstood
I've had X running upto somewhere in 0.2.0rc2 something, I just thought maybe something had changed. I'll try to find some time in a couple of days to get X running again. Thanks John, Rutger On Friday 03 December 2004 20:55, John Harvey wrote: > Your description of the behaviour is correct assuming you are a PAL user. > It writes to the top 480 lines which is the complete screen for NTSC but > theres still another 100 below that for PAL. > So actually I think this is ok. > I believe 0.2 rc candidates all work for 64bit ok as does the x driver. > So I don't think there is anything completely broken other than the fact > that you suffer hangs with encode/decode working together and if that's the > case there are likely to be problems with decode/frame buffer. > > So I believe that as long as you are using the 0.6 version of the ivtvdev x > driver you should be able to get X running. > > John > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:ivtv-devel- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rutger Hendriks > > Sent: 03 December 2004 16:32 > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [ivtv-devel] #0.2.0-rcv dma sync patch > > > > On Thursday 02 December 2004 21:34, John Harvey wrote: > > > Nothing that I know of that would cause this. > > > The x driver hasn't changed for ages. > > > > > > Try > > > > > > ivtvfbctl /dev/fb/1 -prepdma > > > > > > This should display an image that gradually gets darker on the frame > > > > buffer > > > > > and should prove whether ivtv-fb is working. > > > > > > > > > John > > > > Okay, bugreport again :) > > > > I loaded ivtv, that gave quite some memory allocation errors (box was up > > for > > coule of hours) and trying to load ivtv-fb then failed (it was only then > > that > > I saw the memory allocation failures, so no wonder it failed:P) > > unloading all ivtv modules and modprobe ivtv-fb gave a hard crash > > > > so I rebooted and loaded ivtv, that worked okay, then loaded ivtv-fb, no > > problems there. > > Then I tried your > > ivtvfbctl /dev/fb/1 -prepdma > > and ran downstairs :) > > the tv showed 2 things: > > - the upper 80% of the screen gradually changed color from dark to white > > a couple of times (this is oposite of what you describe it should do?!) > > and after a while it stopped and just showed a white screen (important:P) > > > > - the remaining 20% (at the bottom of the screen) showed... > > well...something > > like noise, but it wasn't moving, it where horizontal white lines > > alternating > > with black lines, they were not moving and not completely homogeneously > > filled (I hope you're still with me after this great explanation :P) > > > > I ran back upstairs and tried to fbgrab it, but then what I see is a > > black screen with noise under it (and not a white screen with noise under > > it as it > > shows on the tv!) > > > > Isn't that interesting! I know nothing of the inner workings, but it > > seemed to > > me there is at least one and maybe multiple offsets > > > > Remember, this is on 64-bit. > > > > the dd if=/dev/video0 of=/dev/video16 I did yesterday worked okay then > > (for a > > couple of hours then it hang the machine), I mean it gave a good picture, > > no > > shifts, so it seems ivtv doesn't have this problem > > > > I hope you understood, if you need any more info or want me to test > > stuff, please gimme a yell > > > > Thanks, > > > > Rutger > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide > > Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. > > Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. > > http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > > ivtv-devel mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ivtv-devel > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide > Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. > Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. > http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ > _______________________________________________ > ivtv-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ivtv-devel ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ivtv-devel
