RE: [Freevo-users] TVTime & Xfree86
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Paul Cowper wrote: > That sounds good I will try it, Just one proble. When the Xserver shuts > down, vt screens crash!! But it only happened since the new Nvidia > drivers. Could be clashing with something in SuSE. I'm seeing this on my RH 9 box with the new NVidia binary drivers too. Somehow it doesn't restore the VT (framebuffer) frequency properly. This didn't occur with the previous binary drivers. PS. In CVS snapshot, you can use 'freevo -fs' to start X for you. T.C. Wan Tat Chee (Lecturer) School of Computer Science, Univ. of Science Malaysia, 11800 USM, Penang, Malaysia. Rm.625 Ofc Ph: +604 653-3888 x 3617 NRG Lab Admin: +604 659-4757 Rm.601-E Ofc Ph: +604 653-4396 Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Web: http://nrg.cs.usm.my/~tcwan GPG Key : http://nrg.cs.usm.my/~tcwan/tcw_gpg-20030322.asc F'print : DCF2 B9B2 FA4D 1208 AD59 14CA 9A8F F54D B2C4 63C7 --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] TVTime & Xfree86
TVtime requires certain hardware features to be available, else it runs way too slow, so you need one of the specific accelerated outputs. SDL, MGA are two of the non-X11 options. I don't use tvtime myself, but I imagine there are other options for framebuffer users now too. On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 11:02:51AM +0200, Niklas Brunlid wrote: > With the switch to TVTime for TV viewing, will Freevo require X? Or can > TVTime be run on a framebuffer-only setup? > > I'm asking because I've never been that good at setting up XFree86 in the > first place, and setting it up with working TV-out is not something I'd > like to do... =) > > / Niklas > > > --- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > ___ > Freevo-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
RE: [Freevo-users] TVTime & Xfree86
Or 3 or 4 years !! Actualy it worked well with Mandrake. Maby I should install mandrake instead -Original Message- From: Esben Jensen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 October 2003 12:13 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thursday 02 October 2003 13:03, Paul Cowper wrote: > That sounds good I will try it, Just one proble. When the Xserver > shuts down, vt screens crash!! But it only happened since the new > Nvidia drivers. Could be clashing with something in SuSE. Oh the joy of Nvidia. :) I have an Nvidia card myself and have had lots of troubles getting it working until the latest release. Maybe they become somewhat stable within a year or two. ;) -- Esben Jensen --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star Internet. The service is powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit: http://www.star.net.uk --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] TVTime & Xfree86
On Thursday 02 October 2003 13:03, Paul Cowper wrote: > That sounds good I will try it, Just one proble. When the Xserver > shuts down, vt screens crash!! But it only happened since the new > Nvidia drivers. Could be clashing with something in SuSE. Oh the joy of Nvidia. :) I have an Nvidia card myself and have had lots of troubles getting it working until the latest release. Maybe they become somewhat stable within a year or two. ;) -- Esben Jensen --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
RE: [Freevo-users] TVTime & Xfree86
That sounds good I will try it, Just one proble. When the Xserver shuts down, vt screens crash!! But it only happened since the new Nvidia drivers. Could be clashing with something in SuSE. -Original Message- From: Esben Jensen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 October 2003 11:44 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thursday 02 October 2003 12:32, Paul Cowper wrote: > How do you do that? I never knew you could? cd /path/to/freevo xinit ./freevo Should do the trick, the X server will then shut down as soon as freevo exits. -- Esben Jensen --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star Internet. The service is powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit: http://www.star.net.uk --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] TVTime & Xfree86
On Thursday 02 October 2003 12:32, Paul Cowper wrote: > How do you do that? I never knew you could? cd /path/to/freevo xinit ./freevo Should do the trick, the X server will then shut down as soon as freevo exits. -- Esben Jensen --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
RE: [Freevo-users] TVTime & Xfree86
I do this for freevo with x11, with the smallest amount of services and daemons as possible: #!/bin/sh echo "Starting Log at" `date` > /tmp/start.log # Setup the network - dodgy xbox mac address /sbin/ifconfig eth0 down /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/fix-mac.sh /sbin/ifconfig eth0 up echo "Startfreevo: XBox network fix applied" >> /tmp/start.log # Bring up some extra services /etc/rc3.d/S20ssh start /etc/rc3.d/S20samba start /etc/rc3.d/S20alsa start echo "Startfreevo: Services started" >> /tmp/start.log # Remove the xbox joypad and add the Logitech /sbin/rmmod xpad /sbin/modprobe joydev /sbin/modprobe adi /bin/sh /etc/joystick.cfg echo "Startfreevo: Joystick loaded" >> /tmp/start.log # Start up X11 exec /bin/su root -c "startx -- +bs -ac -dpms" >/dev/tty5 > /tmp/start.log # Finally recreate the mp3 playlist and fire up freevo echo "Startfreevo: Starting extra clients" >> /tmp/start.log /usr/local/bin/randomise.sh /bin/sh /root/.Xclients & echo "Startfreevo: Completed init" >> /tmp/start.log And an .xclient file: #!/bin/sh # # Sleep for X and fvwm to come up rm /tmp/xclient.log echo "Starting Log at " `date` > /tmp/xclient.log # Set the DISPLAY variable DISPLAY=:0.0 export DISPLAY echo "Xclient: Exported display=$DISPLAY" >> /tmp/xclient.log # Turn screensaver off and set background /usr/bin/X11/xset s off /usr/bin/X11/xsetroot -solid black echo "Xclient: Screen setup" >> /tmp/xclient.log # Change to the freevo dir, and start the GUI echo "Xclient: CD to freevo" >> /tmp/xclient.log cd /usr/local/src/freevo echo "Xclient: Sleeping until X up and running" `date` sleep 5 echo "Xclient: Ok trying to start freevo now" `date` su root -c "./freevo" >From power on to freevo display and menu is about 35 seconds. It all runs in 64mb of memory, performance is fine. Ps. Randomise.sh is just a little bash script that finds all .mp3 files beneath a certain folder (including subfolders) and puts a symlink to them in a single 'All songs' freevo playlist. It rebuilds every boot so anything added get automatically added to the playlist. Takes about 2 seconds for a tree of around 40 albums (~500 tracks?) John Snowdon - IT Support Specialist -==- Faculty of Medical Sciences Computing Dept School of Medical Education Development University of Newcastle Phone : 0191 245 4230 Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Per Wigren [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 October 2003 11:14 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] TVTime & Xfree86 Why use a windowmanager at all? Just start freevo as the "windowmanager"! ;) // Wigren Paul Cowper wrote: >I am using TvTime (I think its better than Mplayer) and found that it >didn't work with Fbdev only X11. But I am thinking of a work around. You >see Providing it dosent require GTK which I don't think it does, there >in theory should be no reason for it not to use X11 with ie BlackBox or >WindowMaker. And as X11 supports at least the nvidia tvout then than >that should cause no problem. > >Boot up the machine. Starts str8 into X with WindowMaker and a script >that boots freevo automaticly. > > > > >-Original Message- >From: Niklas Brunlid [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: 02 October 2003 10:03 >To: Freevo users mailing list > >With the switch to TVTime for TV viewing, will Freevo require X? Or can >TVTime be run on a framebuffer-only setup? > >I'm asking because I've never been that good at setting up XFree86 in >the first place, and setting it up with working TV-out is not something >I'd like to do... =) > >/ Niklas > > >--- >This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. >http://thinkgeek.com/sf >___ >Freevo-users mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users > >___ _ >This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star Internet. The >service is powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive >anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit: >http://www.star.net.uk >___ _ > > >--- >This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek >Welcome to geek heaven. >http://thinkgeek.com/sf >___ >Freevo-users mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >https://lists.sourceforge.net/list
RE: [Freevo-users] TVTime & Xfree86
How do you do that? I never knew you could? /// Paul \\\ -Original Message- From: Per Wigren [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 October 2003 11:14 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Why use a windowmanager at all? Just start freevo as the "windowmanager"! ;) // Wigren Paul Cowper wrote: >I am using TvTime (I think its better than Mplayer) and found that it >didn't work with Fbdev only X11. But I am thinking of a work around. >You see Providing it dosent require GTK which I don't think it does, >there in theory should be no reason for it not to use X11 with ie >BlackBox or WindowMaker. And as X11 supports at least the nvidia tvout >then than that should cause no problem. > >Boot up the machine. Starts str8 into X with WindowMaker and a script >that boots freevo automaticly. > > > > >-Original Message- >From: Niklas Brunlid [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: 02 October 2003 10:03 >To: Freevo users mailing list > >With the switch to TVTime for TV viewing, will Freevo require X? Or can >TVTime be run on a framebuffer-only setup? > >I'm asking because I've never been that good at setting up XFree86 in >the first place, and setting it up with working TV-out is not something >I'd like to do... =) > >/ Niklas > > >--- >This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. >http://thinkgeek.com/sf >___ >Freevo-users mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users > >___ >_ This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star Internet. The >service is powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive >anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit: >http://www.star.net.uk >___ >_ > > >--- >This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. >http://thinkgeek.com/sf >___ >Freevo-users mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users > > > --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star Internet. The service is powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit: http://www.star.net.uk --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] TVTime & Xfree86
Why use a windowmanager at all? Just start freevo as the "windowmanager"! ;) // Wigren Paul Cowper wrote: I am using TvTime (I think its better than Mplayer) and found that it didn't work with Fbdev only X11. But I am thinking of a work around. You see Providing it dosent require GTK which I don't think it does, there in theory should be no reason for it not to use X11 with ie BlackBox or WindowMaker. And as X11 supports at least the nvidia tvout then than that should cause no problem. Boot up the machine. Starts str8 into X with WindowMaker and a script that boots freevo automaticly. -Original Message- From: Niklas Brunlid [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 October 2003 10:03 To: Freevo users mailing list With the switch to TVTime for TV viewing, will Freevo require X? Or can TVTime be run on a framebuffer-only setup? I'm asking because I've never been that good at setting up XFree86 in the first place, and setting it up with working TV-out is not something I'd like to do... =) / Niklas --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star Internet. The service is powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit: http://www.star.net.uk --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
RE: [Freevo-users] TVTime & Xfree86
I am using TvTime (I think its better than Mplayer) and found that it didn't work with Fbdev only X11. But I am thinking of a work around. You see Providing it dosent require GTK which I don't think it does, there in theory should be no reason for it not to use X11 with ie BlackBox or WindowMaker. And as X11 supports at least the nvidia tvout then than that should cause no problem. Boot up the machine. Starts str8 into X with WindowMaker and a script that boots freevo automaticly. -Original Message- From: Niklas Brunlid [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 October 2003 10:03 To: Freevo users mailing list With the switch to TVTime for TV viewing, will Freevo require X? Or can TVTime be run on a framebuffer-only setup? I'm asking because I've never been that good at setting up XFree86 in the first place, and setting it up with working TV-out is not something I'd like to do... =) / Niklas --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star Internet. The service is powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit: http://www.star.net.uk --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
