I am afraid that I was unsuccessful in installing two of the programs: emacs installed but wouldn't work (something about a color which wasn't installed) and "locate" wasn't found (how ironic). This is the first linux installation which I have ever seen without a working emacs. The yum configuration files weren't set up properly (after a half hour of googling, I figured it out). Something also not mentioned in the docs was the location of ps3videomode (in /sbin). Of course without locate, it was a little difficult to find. Again, is there a way to complete the installation from the DVD without spending a lot of time with RPMs?
Thanks. -wn David Seikel wrote: > On Mon, 8 Jan 2007 12:50:54 -0800 Warren Nagourney > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> I have done some investigation of the various video modes on the PS3 >> (in Linux) and find that one is not very badly compromised when >> using a standard computer monitor. >> >> First, there are at least 3 VESA modes which are the same as >> standard computer modes (at 60 Hz): >> >> Mode 11 - 1280x768 >> Mode 12 - 1280x1024 >> Mode 13 - 1920x1200 >> >> I am considering trying numbers >13 to see what happens. After all, >> the RSX is a modified NVIDIA GPU and they probably support lots of >> modes in addition to the published ones. All I need is a working >> "ps3videomode" command - it was not installed with the standard YDL5 >> installation (nor was "emacs", "locate" and a host of other nice >> commands - does anyone know an easy way to get them all without >> installing the RPMs individually?) >> > > Have you tried something like - > > yum install emacs locate ps3videomode > > >> These three modes work on my Samsung 940B (using the digital port) >> whose native resolution is 1440x900. I was blown away that the >> 1920x1200 worked, though the monitor put up a little message >> complaining about it. Of course, they were all scaled and looked >> more or less fuzzy (actually the 1920x1200 was best, but I got a >> headache from the fuzziness using it for any time). I believe that >> using a DVI- VGA adaptor should allow the monitor to avoid scaling at >> the expense of a small dark border (on modes 11 and 12). >> >> By the way, the Samsung monitor is HDCP compliant, but I find it >> hard to believe that this matters for anything except (possibly) >> playing a BlueRay movie. I am pretty sure it doesn't matter in Linux. >> > > Lack of HDCP on a DVI monitor may matter on Linux, even though it > shouldn't. I have heard that the PS3 wont even turn on the HDMI output > unless the monitor it's plugged into is HDCP compliant. If this is > true, then a DVI to VGA adaptor wont help. I'm going to be > experimenting with this quite heavily over the next two weeks on a > variety of monitors. I'll let you know what I find. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > yellowdog-general mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general > HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com' _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
