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-Linux box is an Intel PC, P3-450 with 384MB SDRAM -tried the aty128fb kernel patch for 2.4.16 on my 2.4.17 tree; it applied with no errors, but when modprobed,TV display blanks -got the above patch from the DirectFB-0.9.8 tarball; although I'm actually using 0.9.7; 0.9.8 fails to compile on my box, possibly due to a gcc-2.96 problem On Monday 31 December 2001 03:21 pm, Brian Hall wrote: > Hello. I'm new to DirectFB, but I am using it currently with mplayer > and the VESA framebuffer to play DVDs on my Linux box. I have a ATI > All-in-Wonder PCI card (Rage128), and I have never been able to get > the aty128fb module to work. It either locks up the PC or displays a > blank screen on the TV. I've tried not compiling in vesafb period, > but that made no difference. Has anyone gotten aty128fb to work on my > card? > > I'd like to be able to use the ati framebuffer so I can switch modes; > the display is a little off-center and shaky with the VESA fb. > > I have gatos installed but atitvout always reports: > GATOS: gatos_settvout(): No such device > atitvout: settvout failed! > > The system is Mandrake 8.1 with kernel 2.4.17. > > I have the composite TV-out connected directly to the video-in on my > TV. Lspci reports this about the card: > > 00:0a.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage 128 RE > (prog-if 00 [VGA]) > Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 0068 > Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 7 > Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M] > I/O ports at e800 [size=256] > Memory at e5400000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] > Expansion ROM at e4000000 [disabled] [size=128K] > Capabilities: [5c] Power Management version 1 -- http://www.bigfoot.com/~brihall Linux Consultant The best defense is to stay out of range. -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe directfb-users" as subject.
