Re: [Freevo-users] directfb, matrox G400 and TV-Out

2008-03-13 Thread Philip Armstrong
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 10:48:19PM +0100, Duncan Webb wrote: >Does matrox-sgram work, IIRC it used to work on my machine but now when >I run df_dok the "Fill Rectangle", "Fill Triangles" doesn't work any >more. But that could be only when running it on the primary layer 0. No idea. Not all Matro

Re: [Freevo-users] directfb, matrox G400 and TV-Out

2008-03-09 Thread Duncan Webb
Philip Armstrong wrote: > 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 direc

Re: [Freevo-users] directfb, matrox G400 and TV-Out

2008-03-06 Thread Tanja
Thanks a lot. That is very detailed information! I will try this as soon as I have fixed my current problems with freevo itself. Many thanks again Tanja Philip Armstrong schrieb: > On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 07:47:20PM +0100, Tanja wrote: >> thanks for your offered help. At the moment I am back to

Re: [Freevo-users] directfb, matrox G400 and TV-Out

2008-03-06 Thread Philip Armstrong
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 ma

Re: [Freevo-users] directfb, matrox G400 and TV-Out

2008-03-06 Thread Tanja
Hi Phil, 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

Re: [Freevo-users] directfb, matrox G400 and TV-Out

2008-03-06 Thread Duncan Webb
Philip Armstrong wrote: > Tanya, I'm running freevo with exactly this setup (G400, directfb > mplayer / freevo output). I've also got the SNES emulator working with > directfb as well for some old-school gaming goodness... > > On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 12:00:18PM +0100, Tanja wrote: > >> Actually

Re: [Freevo-users] directfb, matrox G400 and TV-Out

2008-03-06 Thread Philip Armstrong
Tanya, I'm running freevo with exactly this setup (G400, directfb mplayer / freevo output). I've also got the SNES emulator working with directfb as well for some old-school gaming goodness... On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 12:00:18PM +0100, Tanja wrote: >Actually I tried with mplayer so far, but thanks

Re: [Freevo-users] directfb, matrox G400 and TV-Out

2008-02-09 Thread Duncan Webb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tanja wrote: | | | Duncan Webb schrieb: |> The only real complication was the directfcrc file, attached is one that |> I used, one day I would like to buy a new monitor that has TV input so |> that I can use it again. What I find really strange is that

Re: [Freevo-users] directfb, matrox G400 and TV-Out

2008-02-09 Thread Tanja
Duncan Webb schrieb: > The only real complication was the directfcrc file, attached is one that > I used, one day I would like to buy a new monitor that has TV input so > that I can use it again. What I find really strange is that no > manufacturer has developed a graphics card, except Matrox, th

Re: [Freevo-users] directfb, matrox G400 and TV-Out

2008-02-08 Thread Duncan Webb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Molohan wrote: | Tanja wrote: |> John Molohan schrieb: |> |>> Ok it's been a long time since I set it up and I changed from it about 6 |>> months ago but maybe the first thing to check is are you running as |>> root? You'll have to from what I re

Re: [Freevo-users] directfb, matrox G400 and TV-Out

2008-02-08 Thread Tanja
Duncan Webb schrieb: > I wrote this page a couple of years ago: > http://www.directfb.org/wiki/index.php/Matrox_G400_Dual_Head > > Didn't put the garbage at the beginning, IIRC their wiki was spammed. > > There are some links to other howtos in there. > > Duncan > Hi Duncan, I already found

Re: [Freevo-users] directfb, matrox G400 and TV-Out

2008-02-08 Thread John Molohan
Tanja wrote: > John Molohan schrieb: > >> Ok it's been a long time since I set it up and I changed from it about 6 >> months ago but maybe the first thing to check is are you running as >> root? You'll have to from what I remember. >> > > Hi John, > > I am trying to run it as root. > > So

Re: [Freevo-users] directfb, matrox G400 and TV-Out

2008-02-08 Thread Tanja
John Molohan schrieb: > Ok it's been a long time since I set it up and I changed from it about 6 > months ago but maybe the first thing to check is are you running as > root? You'll have to from what I remember. Hi John, I am trying to run it as root. So you had it running? Maybe you can answe

Re: [Freevo-users] directfb, matrox G400 and TV-Out

2008-02-07 Thread Duncan Webb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Molohan wrote: | Tanja wrote: |> Hi there, |> |> is here someone who uses directfb to output to the TV-Out of a matrox G400? |> Could you point me to a good HowTo or give me some hints? |> |> I did compile directfb and hopefully compiled and loade

Re: [Freevo-users] directfb, matrox G400 and TV-Out

2008-02-07 Thread John Molohan
Tanja wrote: > Hi there, > > is here someone who uses directfb to output to the TV-Out of a matrox G400? > Could you point me to a good HowTo or give me some hints? > > I did compile directfb and hopefully compiled and loaded all needed kernel > modules (kernel 2.6.22) > But when I start dfbinfo,

[Freevo-users] directfb, matrox G400 and TV-Out

2008-02-07 Thread Tanja
Hi there, is here someone who uses directfb to output to the TV-Out of a matrox G400? Could you point me to a good HowTo or give me some hints? I did compile directfb and hopefully compiled and loaded all needed kernel modules (kernel 2.6.22) But when I start dfbinfo, I just get: ===