Hi, I have gone through all the steps to get G450 and dfbmga working. It's hard to say what you have missed because you haven't described the steps you have done. But you have to 'export SDL_VIDEODRIVER=directfb' and I think you have to create a symlink somewhere in the Freevo structure to the SDL-lib (I'm not at my Freevo-box now and can't remember where the link was). You also need to run as root. The last thing I can remember that bugged me was to be sure that directfb is found when compiling SDL, look for 'checking directfb.... OK' or something.
Let me know how you go, /Bjorn --- Kai Fricke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev: > Hi! > > I would be very pleased to get some help with my > problem. I've found > alot snippets on the freevo wiki pages and links > here and there, but > nothing completely focused on using freevo on > dfbmga. So here comes my > story... > > I've read alot about setting up freevo the best way > on my configuration. > The main problem is to get the Matrox G450 up and > running correctly on > tvout. > The best way seems to be the directfb library and > the directfb patches > found in the mplayer sources. They enable the system > to play very nice > movies with mplayer on the tvout (which is by the > way the y-cable on the > second head of the g450). And all of this without > playing around with > framebuffer tweaking for proper PAL display settings > (timing, > resolution, etc.). > > The final step i thought was to fetch the SDL > library from CVS. I did > that and the 'ldd /../libSDL.so' tells me that she > seems to use the > directfb library if told so. > > But how do i really get freevo to use the dfbmga > (directfb on mga fb > combination) output? > I only found the display parameter directfb in the > freevo > configurations. This way i still get the output on > my first head, my > monitor, and not on the second, my tv. > When i insert the mplayer parameters for dfbmga, > which give me nice > video on the tv as i would like, into the freevo > configuration, my > monitor gets black when i try to play a movie, but > nothing happens. the > mplayer logfiles tell nothing bad, the mention the > driectfb settings and > so on, but the vt stays dark. > > I remember some SDL environment settings to control > some settings of the > SDL library, but i've not found anything about this > with google. Is this > the way i need to go? Or am i completly wrong? > > I'm kind of stuck with this. How can i tell the sdl > to use my dfbmga > output :-( > > -- > #kai > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: VM Ware > With VMware you can run multiple operating systems > on a single machine. > WITHOUT REBOOTING! Mix Linux / Windows / Novell > virtual machines > at the same time. Free trial click > here:http://www.vmware.com/wl/offer/358/0 > _______________________________________________ > Freevo-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users _____________________________________________________ G� f�re i k�n och f� din sajt v�rderad p� nolltid med Yahoo! Express Se mer p�: http://se.docs.yahoo.com/info/express/help/index.html ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: VM Ware With VMware you can run multiple operating systems on a single machine. WITHOUT REBOOTING! Mix Linux / Windows / Novell virtual machines at the same time. Free trial click here:http://www.vmware.com/wl/offer/358/0 _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
